U+0071 "q" Latin Small Letter Q Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+0071 "q" Latin Small Letter Q is the lowercase version of the letter Q, derived from the Latin alphabet and commonly used in modern English and many other languages. In the ASCII standard and Unicode, it occupies the code point 113 decimal, often representing the voiced uvular stop sound in phonetics or serving as a common variable in mathematics and computer programming. Historically, its shape evolved from the Phoenician letter Qoph, which originally represented a guttural sound, later adopted by the Greeks and Romans into their own alphabets. In modern usage, it is frequently paired with the letter U in English to form the digraph "qu" as in "quick" or "query," and it appears in various technical contexts such as the Q keyboard shortcut or the Q factor in engineering.

General Properties

Code Point U+0071
Version Added 1.1
Name Latin Small Letter Q
Block Basic Latin
General Category Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding q
HTML Hex Encoding q
UTF-8 Encoding 0x71
UTF-16 Encoding 0x0071
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00000071
C/C++/Java Escape \u0071

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
Lowercase Yes
Simple Uppercase Code Point "Q" U+0051 Latin Capital Letter Q
Simple Titlecase Code Point "Q" U+0051 Latin Capital Letter Q
Uppercase Code Point "Q" U+0051 Latin Capital Letter Q
Titlecase Code Point "Q" U+0051 Latin Capital Letter Q
Cased Yes
Changes When Casemapped Yes
Changes When Titlecased Yes
Changes When Uppercased Yes
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 Lower