(qú) surname Qu
(jù) startled
(qūtángxiá) Qutang gorge, 8 km long gorge on the Changjiang or Yangtze in Chongqing 重慶|重庆, the upper of the Three gorges 三峽|三峡[san1 xia2]
(qútán) Gautama, surname of the Siddhartha, the historical Buddha
(qūqiūbái) Qu Qiubai (1899-1935), politician, Soviet expert of the Chinese communists at time of Soviet influence, publisher and Russian translator, captured and executed by Guomindang at the time of the Long March