Q (named cue /ˈkjuː/) is the seventeent letter o the ISO basic Latin alphabet.
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Egyptian hieroglyph wj | Phoenician qoph | Etruscan Q | Greek Qoppa | ||
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The Semitic soond value o Qôp (aiblins oreeginally qaw, "cord o wool", an possibly based on an Egyptian hieroglyph) wis /q/ (voiceless uvular stop), a soond common tae Semitic leids, but nae foond in Inglis or maist Indo-European anes. In Greek, this sign as Qoppa Ϙ probably came tae represent several labialized velar stops, amang them /kʷ/ an /kʷʰ/. As a result o later soond shifts, thir soonds in Greek chynged tae /p/ an /pʰ/ respectively. Tharefore, Qoppa wis transfairmed intae twa letters: Qoppa, which stuid for a nummer anly, an Phi Φ which stuid for the aspiratit soond /pʰ/ that came tae be pronoonced /f/ in Modren Greek.
In the earliest Latin inscriptions, the letters C, K an Q wur aw uised tae represent the twa soonds /k/ an /ɡ/, which wur nae differentiatit in writin. O thir, Q wis uised afore a roondit vowel (e.g. ⟨EQO⟩ 'ego'), K afore /a/, an C elsewhaur. Later, the uise o C (an its variant G) replaced maist uisages o K an Q: Q survivit anly tae represent /k/ when immediately follaeed bi a /w/ soond. The Etruscans uised Q in conjunction wi V tae represent /kʷ/
Character | Q | q | ||
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Unicode name | LATIN CAIPITAL LETTER Q | LATIN SMAA LETTER Q | ||
Encodins | decimal | hex | decimal | hex |
Unicode | 81 | U+0051 | 113 | U+0071 |
UTF-8 | 81 | 51 | 113 | 71 |
Numeric chairacter reference | Q | Q | q | q |
EBCDIC faimily | 216 | D8 | 152 | 98 |
ASCII 1 | 81 | 51 | 113 | 71 |
NATO phonetic | Morse code |
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Seegnal banner | Banner semaphore | American manual alphabet (ASL fingerspellin) | Braille dots-12345 |
The ISO basic Laitin alphabet | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Aa | Bb | Cc | Dd | Ee | Ff | Gg | Hh | Ii | Jj | Kk | Ll | Mm | Nn | Oo | Pp | Rr | Ss | Tt | Uu | Vv | Ww | Xx | Yy | Zz | ||
Letter Q with diacritics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ɋɋ | Ƣƣ | ʠ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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