U+0051 "Q" Latin Capital Letter Q Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Q
U+0051 "Q" Latin Capital Letter Q is a letter in the Latin alphabet, derived from the Phoenician letter qoph, which originally represented a uvular or velar stop sound and was later adopted by the Etruscans and Romans. In English and many other Western languages, it functions almost exclusively in the digraph "qu" to represent the voiceless labiovelar stop sound, though it appears alone in loanwords and various naming conventions. Its typographic form features a circular or oval body with a distinctive tail descending below the baseline, and it occupies code point U+0051 within the Basic Latin block of the Unicode standard, corresponding to its position in ASCII as hexadecimal 51.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0051 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter Q |
| Block | Basic Latin |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Q |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Q |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0x51 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0051 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000051 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0051 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| East Asian Width | Narrow |
| Uppercase | Yes |
| Simple Lowercase Code Point | "q" U+0071 Latin Small Letter Q |
| Lowercase Code Point | "q" U+0071 Latin Small Letter Q |
| Simple Case Folding | "q" U+0071 Latin Small Letter Q |
| Case Folding | "q" U+0071 Latin Small Letter Q |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "q" U+0071 Latin Small Letter Q |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "q" U+0071 Latin Small Letter Q |
| Script | Latin |
| Script Extensions | Latin |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| ID Start | Yes |
| XID Start | Yes |
| ID Continue | Yes |
| XID Continue | Yes |
| Alphabetic | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Alphabetic letter |
| Sentence Break | Upper |