QU
Wikimedia disambiguation page
QU, Qu or qu may refer to:
Arts and media
QU (album), an album by the American band Sherwood
Qu (poetry), a Chinese type of sung poetry
A race of gourmands from the Square Enix console role-playing game Final Fantasy IX
An alien species in C. M. Kosemen's science fiction novel All Tomorrows
A member of the History Monks in Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels
People
Qu (surname 屈), Chinese surname
Qu (surname 瞿), Chinese surname
Qu (surname 曲), Chinese surname
Schools
Qarshi University, Lahore, Pakistan
Qassim University, Qassim, Saudi Arabia
Qatar University, Doha, Qatar
Queensland University, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Queen's University at Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Quincy University, Quincy, Illinois, United States
Quinnipiac University, Hamden, Connecticut, United States
Other uses
List of English words containing Q not followed by U
The Latin name for the Roman script letter Q;
Qu (digraph), a digraph used in several languages;
Qu County, county in Sichuan, China;
Qū (曲/麹/麴), fermentation starters used in East Asia in the production of traditional Chinese alcoholic beverages;
District (PRC and ROC) in the People's Republic of China and the Republic of China;
Myrocarpus frondosus, a plant;
Quechua languages, a group of Native American languages of South America (ISO 639-1 code "qu").
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