Qu

See also: Appendix:Variations of "qu"

English

Etymology

Borrowed from the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of various Mandarin surnames, including 瞿 (Qú) and 曲 (Qū).

Proper noun

Qu (plural Qus)

1. A surname.
   • [1981, Paul G. Pickowicz, “Youth in Changchow”, in Marxist Literary Thought in China: The Influence of Ch’ü Ch’iu-pai‎, University of California Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1:

     Ch’ü was born on January 29, 1899, in a small room in the family residence in the southern portion of Changchow, a relatively small city in Kiangsu province.]

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Qu is the 12035^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 2593 individuals. Qu is most common among Asian/Pacific Islander (95.49%) individuals.

Anagrams

• UQ

Spanish

Letter

Qu (mixed case, upper case QU, lower case qu)

1. a digraph from the letters Q and U