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

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.