Latin Capital Letter Q
Part of Basic ASCII: Alt 33 to 126
On Windows, hold Alt and type 81 on the numeric keypad to insert latin capital letter q.
- Alt code
- Alt+81
- HTML entity
- Q
- Unicode
- U+0051
About this symbol
Q comes from qoph, a Phoenician letter for a k sound said deep in the throat, which became the early Greek koppa. Greek soon dropped it, but the Romans kept it, almost always followed by u, a habit English inherited.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Q
- Type
- Uppercase letter
- Unicode block
- Basic Latin
- Unicode group
- Uppercase Latin alphabet
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
Click the symbol or any value at the top of the page to copy it. See the full Basic ASCII: Alt 33 to 126 chart for related characters.