qu
See also: qu', qu-, Qu., qú, qù, qū, and qǔ
Translingual
Symbol
qu
- (international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Quechua.
English
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 區／区 (qū).
Noun
qu (plural qus)
- (China) An administrative subdivision of China roughly equivalent to districts, distinguished from the more rural "counties" (xian).
- [1973, Survey of China Mainland Press, number 5308-5345, ISSN 0499-0390, OCLC 1695580, page 52:
- […] the Party committee of Peiyuanmen commune of Lienhu ch'u in Sian municipality has since the year before last set up outside-school cultural activity centers in the commune headquarters and in various neighborhood committees.]
- 2009, Des Forges, Roger, “Tales of Three City Walls in China's Central Plain”, in Chinese Walls in Time and Space: A Multidisciplinary Perspective, →ISBN, ISSN 1050-2955, LCCN 2009925854, OCLC 762303701, pages 60-61:
- As we have seen, the people of Guide/Shangqiu have traced the history of their city back well before the Ming and especially to the Han period. The People's Republic has recognized that heritage by naming the district subordinate to Shangqiu city the Liangyuan qu (Liang Garden District) and the district subordinate to Guide the Suiyang qu (Suiyang District) (see Map 3).
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Azerbaijani
Etymology
From Common Turkic *quɣu (“swan”), from Proto-Turkic *kugu (“swan”). Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰴𐰆𐰍𐰆 (quɣu), Kazakh қу (qu), Shor қуу, Turkmen guw, Turkish kuğu, Nogai кув (kuv), Karakhanid قُغُو (quɣū).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ɡu]
- Hyphenation: qu
Noun
qu (definite accusative qunu, plural qular)
- swan
- Synonym: qu quşu
Further reading
- “qu” in Obastan.com.
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ky/
Noun
qu m (plural qus)
- Alternative spelling of ku
Mandarin
Romanization
qu (qu5 / qu0, Zhuyin ˙ㄑㄩ)
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 戌.
qu
- Nonstandard spelling of qū.
- Nonstandard spelling of qú.
- Nonstandard spelling of qǔ.
- Nonstandard spelling of qù.
Usage notes
- English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.
Musi
Alternative forms
- aqu
Pronoun
qu
- I (personal pronoun)
- Qu ngenjoq sén dié agaitangi. ― I gave him/her money yesterday.
- me (direct object of a verb)
- Naméq nga daq ngendaq qu?. ― Why you didn't invite me?.
- me (object of a preposition)
- me (indirect object of a verb)
- (colloquial) my (belonging to me)
Spanish
Letter
qu (lower case, upper case QU, mixed case Qu)
- a digraph from the letters q and u
Further reading
- “qu”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014