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See also: Appendix:Variations of "x"

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Translingual

English Wikipedia has an article on:

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Wikipedia

Etymology 1

Letter

x (upper case X)

The twenty-fourth letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

IPA (file)

Symbol

x

English Wikipedia has an article on:

Voiceless velar fricative

Wikipedia

(IPA) The voiceless velar fricative.
(mathematics) An unknown variable.
(mathematics) The first coordinate in Cartesian coordinates, representing horizontal position.
Used as a placeholder for a digit or value that may vary.
- 2008, Leonard Richardson, Sam Ruby, RESTful Web Services (in English), page 387:
  The 5xx [i.e. three digits starting "5"] series of status codes is for representing problems on the server side.
- 2009, Ravi Rikhye, Concise World Armies 2009 (in English):
  BRIGADE NUMBERING - TRADITIONAL • Armor Brigade [5xx series] • Armored Infantry Brigade [3xx series] • Motorized Infantry Brigade [2xx series] • Infantry Brigade [1xx series] • Special Forces [8xx series]
- 2010, Tri "Slowhabit" Nguyen, Martin Harris, Advanced PLO Play (in English), page 53:
  Although my opponent will have 4xxx [i.e. a 4 and three other cards] frequently, I have to stack off occasionally to avoid being exploited in this spot.
A kiss at the end of a letter, or similar missive.
- 2009 September 8, tammy martinez, “God bless u!”, in cir-b-ksa‎^[2] (Usenet; in Spanish), retrieved 2014-10-26:
  Que DIOS te bendiga, xoxo
  GOD bless you xoxo
- 2010 September 4, pap...@yahoo.com, “Re: Sortido”, in Medicina UFRJ Turma 1970‎^[3] (Usenet; in Portuguese), retrieved 2014-10-26:
  Pratinha te amo, te amo...XOXO luizbola
  Parinha I love you, I love you...XOXO luizbola
- 2012, Amanda Jennings, Sworn Secret (in English):
  i love you :)! xxx. She pressed send and stared at him. She giggled when he reached into his pocket and pulled out his phone.
- Lua error in Module:quote at line 1134: URL not allowed to contain a space, but saw |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=7mpZAgAAQBAJ&lpg=PT4&dq=liebe%20xoxo&pg=PT4#v=onepage&q=liebe%20xoxo&f=false dedication
- Lua error in Module:quote at line 2106: Can't have |first= without |author= or |last=
- 1999, Mon évolution par l'Amour‎^[4] (in French), page 134:
  Je t’aime ! Kristel xxxx...
  I love you ! Kristel xxxx...
(computing) A unit of transfer rate of CD drives, equal to 150 KiB per second.
(computing) A unit of transfer rate of DVD drives, equal 1.32 MiB per second.
Alternative spelling of ×
Dimensions: 1280x720

3x as much as usual
- 2017, Karin Loose, Gesunde Lebensführung - Gewusst wie!?: Ernährung + Bewegung + Psyche, BookRix (→ISBN)"
  Nebenzahlreichen sekundären Pflanzenstoffen enthält Moringa: 2x so viel Proteine wie Soja [...]

Usage notes

Using x (in upper- or lower-case, italicized or not, and sometimes rotated 90 degrees) to indicate multiplication was common in 17th-century mathematical texts.^[1] Today, this usage is considered poor typography, but it is nevertheless common because computer keyboards lack a × key.

Etymology 3

Symbol

x

Ⅹ, the Roman numeral ten (10)

Alternative forms

X, x, Ⅹ, VV, vv

Gallery

Letter styles
Capital and lowercase versions of X, in normal and italic type
Uppercase and lowercase X in Fraktur

References

^ Cajori, Florian (1914 December) “The Cross X as a Symbol for Multiplication”, in Nature‎^[1], volume 94, →DOI, pages 363–364

English

Pronunciation

(letter name): IPA^(key): /ɛks/

Audio (US)

(file)

(phoneme): IPA^(key): /ks/, /ɡz/, /z/, /kʃ/, /ɡʒ/

Letter

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x (lower case, upper case X, plural xs or x's)

The twenty-fourth letter of the English alphabet, called ex and written in the Latin script.
Forming gender-neutral or otherwise more inclusive, feminist or 'radical' versions of words, especially Spanish-derived words by replacing both the masculine -o and feminine -a.
Chicanx, Latinx, womxn

Adjective

x

Alternative letter-case form of X (“intersex or non-binary, in passports and identification documents”)

Conjunction

x

(fandom slang) Used between the names of two characters to denote a ship, particularly in anime, manga, and video games.
- 1998 August 31, Greg Upchurch, “[Eva][Fanfic] Aright”, in rec.arts.anime.creative‎^[5] (Usenet):
  If there is anyone in the audience who can't stand someone pushing a Shinji x Rei thing, I know you want to quit on this fic now.
- 2002 July 7, Arnold Kim, “Re: Favorite couples??”, in alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer‎^[6] (Usenet):
  I'm a fairly big Angel x Buffy fan, though I'm not a particularly big fan of Angel. They just work well together, IMO.
- 2003 April 29, sephigirl, “Re: [OT] Character selections was: Re: [POLL] Identification”, in alt.fan.utena‎^[7] (Usenet):
  Tho' my doujinshi is a Cloud x Sephiroth - yes you read that right - Cloud's name is first. ^^!
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:x.
(music) Used in place of and in artist collaborations.
Taska Black x DROELOE, Steve Aoki x Lauren Jauregui, etc.

Afar

Letter

x

The eighth letter of the Afar alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Azerbaijani

Pronunciation

(phoneme) IPA^(key): /x/

Letter

x lower case (upper case X)

The twelfth letter of the Azerbaijani alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Dutch

Pronunciation

Rhymes: -ɪks
(letter name): IPA^(key): /ɪks/

Letter

x (lower case, upper case X)

The twenty-fourth letter of the Dutch alphabet.

Finnish

Pronunciation

Audio (file)

Letter

x (lower case, upper case X)

The twenty-third letter of the Finnish alphabet, called äks or eks and written in the Latin script.

Usage notes

Used only in loanwords. In more established loanwords replaced with ks.

French

Pronunciation

(letter name) IPA^(key): /iks/
Audio (file)

Letter

x (lower case, upper case X)

The twenty-fourth letter of the French alphabet, written in the Latin script.
- 1837, Louis Viardot, L’Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manche‎^{fr.Wikisource}, translation of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Chapter I:
  Avec ces propos et d’autres semblables, le pauvre gentilhomme perdait le jugement. Il passait les nuits et se donnait la torture pour les comprendre, pour les approfondir, pour leur tirer le sens des entrailles, ce qu’Aristote lui-même n’aurait pu faire, s’il fût ressuscité tout exprès pour cela.
  With these passages and other similar ones, the poor gentleman lost his judgement. He spent his nights and tortured himself to understand them, to consider them more deeply, to take from them their deepest meaning, which Aristotle himself would not have been able to do, had he been resurrected for that very purpose.

Gothic

Romanization

x

Romanization of 𐍇

Icelandic

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /xs/

Letter

x (upper case X)

The twenty-seventh letter of the Icelandic alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Ido

Pronunciation

Lua error in Module:parameters at line 95: Parameter 1 should be a valid language code; the value "context pronunciation" is not valid. See WT:LOL. IPA^(key): /ks/
Lua error in Module:parameters at line 95: Parameter 1 should be a valid language code; the value "letter name" is not valid. See WT:LOL. IPA^(key): /kse/

Letter

x (upper case X)

The twenty-fourth letter of the Ido alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Italian

Etymology 1

Noun

x m or f (uncountable)

x; the 24th letter of the Latin alphabet

Etymology 2

The multiplication sign × (which is visually similar to the letter x) is pronounced per in Italian.

Preposition

x

(text messaging, slang) Abbreviation of per (“for”).

Usage notes

This convention is not only used for the preposition but also used within words such as, xké (“perché”), xò (“però”).

Latin

Letter

x (lower case, upper case X)

The twenty-third letter of the Latin alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Malay

Letter

x (lower case, upper case X)

The twenty-fourth letter of the Malay alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Norwegian

Pronunciation

(letter name): IPA^(key): /eks/, /ɛks/
(phoneme): IPA^(key): /ks/, /s/
Audio (file)

Letter

x

The 24th letter of the Norwegian alphabet.

Usage notes

Only appears in loanwords from e.g. Latin.

Portuguese

Pronunciation

(phoneme) IPA^(key): /ʃ/, /ks/, /s/, /z/
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Lua error in Module:parameters at line 95: Parameter 1 should be a valid language code; the value "BR" is not valid. See WT:LOL. IPA^(key): /ˈʃis/
Audio (BR) (file)

Letter

x (lower case, upper case X)

The twenty-fourth letter of the Portuguese alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Romanian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /iks/

Letter

x (lowercase x, capital X)

The twenty-seventh letter of the Romanian alphabet representing the double-consonant sounds /ɡz/, /ks/. Preceded by v and followed by z.

Spanish

Pronunciation

(phoneme) IPA^(key): /ks/, /s/, /x/
(letter name)
IPA^(key): /ˈekis/ [ˈe.kis]
- Audio (Spain) (file)

Letter

x (lower case, upper case X)

The 25th letter of the Spanish alphabet.
(uncommon) Forming gender-neutral versions of words by replacing both the masculine o and feminine a.
chicanx, ellxs, latinx, lxs

Preposition

x

(text messaging, Internet slang) por

Zulu

Letter

x (lower case, upper case X)

The twenty-fourth letter of the Zulu alphabet, written in the Latin script.