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The Semitic sound value of Qôp was {{IPA|/q/}} (voiceless uvular stop), and the form of the letter could have been based on the eye of a needle, a knot, or even a monkey with its tail hanging down.Travers Wood, Henry Craven Ord Lanchester, A Hebrew Grammar, 1913, p. 7. A. B. Davidson, Hebrew Primer and Grammar, 2000, [https://books.google.com/books?id=L3e0nqF9_1MC&pg=RA1-PA4 p. 4] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170204004048/https://books.google.ch/books?id=L3e0nqF9_1MC&pg=RA1-PA4 |date=2017-02-04 }}. The meaning is doubtful. "Eye of a needle" has been suggested, and also "knot" Harvard Studies in Classical Philology vol. 45.Isaac Taylor, History of the Alphabet: Semitic Alphabets, Part 1, 2003: "The old explanation, which has again been revived by Halévy, is that it denotes an 'ape,' the character Q being taken to represent an ape with its tail hanging down. It may also be referred to a Talmudic root which would signify an 'aperture' of some kind, as the 'eye of a needle,' ... Lenormant adopts the more usual explanation that the word means a 'knot'. {{IPA|/q/}} is a sound common to Semitic languages, but not found in many European languages.{{efn|See references at Voiceless uvular stop#Occurrence}} In common with other glyphs derived from the Proto-Sinaitic script, the letter has been suggested to have its roots in Egyptian hieroglyphs.{{cite book|last1=Samuel|first1=Stehman Haldeman|title=Elements of Latin Pronunciation: For the Use of Students in Language, Law, Medicine, Zoology, Botany, and the Sciences Generally in which Latin Words are Used|date=1851|publisher=J.B. Lippincott|pages=56|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=J4UAAAAAYAAJ&q=Qof+Qoppa&pg=PA56|access-date=2020-11-19|archive-date=2021-08-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210816024443/https://books.google.com/books?id=J4UAAAAAYAAJ&q=Qof+Qoppa&pg=PA56|url-status=live}}{{cite book|last1=Hamilton|first1=Gordon James|title=The Origins of the West Semitic Alphabet in Egyptian Scripts|date=2006|publisher=Catholic Biblical Association of America|isbn=9780915170401|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LdANAAAAYAAJ&q=Egyptian+Qoppa|access-date=2020-09-16|archive-date=2022-02-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220221011159/https://books.google.com/books?id=LdANAAAAYAAJ&q=Egyptian+Qoppa|url-status=live}}

In an early form of Ancient Greek, qoppa (Ϙ) probably came to represent several labialized velar stops, among them {{IPA|/kʷ/}} and {{IPA|/kʷʰ/}}.{{cite book|last1=Woodard|first1=Roger G.|title=The Textualization of the Greek Alphabet|date=2014-03-24|pages=303|publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=9781107729308|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pxUOAwAAQBAJ&q=Greek+Qoppa+labiovelar&pg=PA303|access-date=2020-11-19|archive-date=2022-02-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220221011152/https://books.google.com/books?id=pxUOAwAAQBAJ&q=Greek+Qoppa+labiovelar&pg=PA303|url-status=live}} As a result of later sound shifts, these sounds in Greek changed to {{IPA|/p/}} and {{IPA|/pʰ/}} respectively.{{Cite web|url=https://www.ling.upenn.edu/~rnoyer/courses/51/GreekSoundChanges.pdf|title=Principal Sound Changes from PIE to Greek|last=Noyer|first=Rolf|website=University of Pennsylvania Department of Linguistics|access-date=2017-02-03|archive-date=2017-02-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170204004339/http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~rnoyer/courses/51/GreekSoundChanges.pdf|url-status=live}} Therefore, qoppa was transformed into two letters: qoppa, which stood for the number 90,{{Cite web|url=http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/alphabet.html|title=The Origin of the Alphabet|last=Boeree|first=C. George|website=Shippensburg University|publisher=Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania|access-date=2017-02-03|archive-date=2016-12-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161204204050/http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/alphabet.html|url-status=live}} and phi (Φ), which stood for the aspirated sound {{IPA|/pʰ/}} that came to be pronounced {{IPA|/f/}} in Modern Greek.{{Cite journal|last=Arvaniti |first=Amalia |year=1999 |title=Standard Modern Greek |url=https://www.kent.ac.uk/cultures-languages |journal=Journal of the International Phonetic Association |volume=2 |issue=29 |pages=167–172 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303222353/http://www.kent.ac.uk/secl/ell/staff/amalia-arvaniti/docs/Illustrations%20%20of%20the%20IPA%20-%20Modern%20Greek.pdf |archive-date=2016-03-03 |doi=10.1017/S0025100300006538|s2cid=145606058 }}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DUBAAAAAQBAJ&q=qoppa+phi+split&pg=PA54|title=Ancient Scripts and Phonological Knowledge|last=Miller|first=D. Gary|date=1994-09-06|publisher=John Benjamins Publishing|isbn=9789027276711|pages=54–56|language=en|access-date=2020-11-19|archive-date=2021-08-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210818022153/https://books.google.com/books?id=DUBAAAAAQBAJ&q=qoppa+phi+split&pg=PA54|url-status=live}}

The Etruscans used Q in conjunction with V to represent {{IPA|/kʷ/}}, and this usage was copied by the Romans with the rest of their alphabet. In the earliest Latin inscriptions, the letters C, K and Q were all used to represent the two sounds {{IPA|/k/}} and {{IPA|/ɡ/}}, which were not differentiated in writing. Of these, Q was used before a rounded vowel (e.g. {{angbr|EQO}} 'ego'), K before {{IPA|/a/}} (e.g. {{angbr|KALENDIS}} 'calendis'), and C elsewhere.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eNSqBgAAQBAJ&q=%22latin%22+inscriptions+%22C%22+%22Q%22+%22K%22&pg=PA482|title=Edinburgh Companion to Ancient Greece and Rome|last=Bispham|first=Edward|date=2010-03-01|publisher=Edinburgh University Press|isbn=9780748627141|pages=482|language=en|access-date=2020-11-19|archive-date=2022-02-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220221011155/https://books.google.com/books?id=eNSqBgAAQBAJ&q=%22latin%22+inscriptions+%22C%22+%22Q%22+%22K%22&pg=PA482|url-status=live}} Later, the use of C (and its variant G) replaced most usages of K and Q: Q survived only to represent {{IPA|/k/}} when immediately followed by a {{IPA|/w/}} sound.{{citation

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In Turkey between 1928 and 2013 the use of the letter Q, alongside X and W, was banned from official government documents, such as street signs and brochures. The letter forms part of the Kurdish alphabet but is not present in Turkish.{{Cite web|title=Ban on Kurdish letters to be lifted with democracy package - Turkey News|url=https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/ban-on-kurdish-letters-to-be-lifted-with-democracy-package-55254|access-date=2022-01-17|website=Hürriyet Daily News|date=27 September 2013 |language=en|archive-date=2022-01-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220117020305/https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/ban-on-kurdish-letters-to-be-lifted-with-democracy-package-55254|url-status=live}}

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File:Base columna trajana.jpg: this long-tailed Q, used here in the Latin word "POPVLVSQVE", was carved into Trajan's column {{Circa}} AD 113.]]

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Depending on the typeface used to typeset the letter Q, the letter's tail may either bisect its bowl as in Helvetica,{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IW9MAQAAQBAJ&q=q+tail+typography&pg=PA189|title=The Fundamentals of Typography: Second Edition|last1=Ambrose|first1=Gavin|last2=Harris|first2=Paul|date=2011-08-31|publisher=A & C Black|isbn=9782940411764|page=24|language=en|quote=...the bisecting tail of the Helvetica 'Q'.|access-date=2020-11-19|archive-date=2021-08-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210819020149/https://books.google.com/books?id=IW9MAQAAQBAJ&q=q+tail+typography&pg=PA189|url-status=live}} meet the bowl as in Univers, or lie completely outside the bowl as in PT Sans. In writing block letters, bisecting tails are the fastest to write, as they require less precision. All three styles are considered equally valid, with most serif typefaces having a Q with a tail that meets the circle, while sans-serif typefaces are more equally split between those with bisecting tails and those without.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yBytanUmuCoC&q=q+tail+typography&pg=PA110|title=Lettering & Type: Creating Letters and Designing Typefaces|last1=Willen|first1=Bruce|last2=Strals|first2=Nolen|date=2009-09-23|publisher=Princeton Architectural Press|isbn=9781568987651|pages=110|language=en|quote=The bowl of the Q is typically similar to the bowl of the O, although not always identical. The style and design of the Q's tail is often a distinctive feature of a typeface.|access-date=2020-11-19|archive-date=2021-08-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210815232906/https://books.google.com/books?id=yBytanUmuCoC&q=q+tail+typography&pg=PA110|url-status=live}} Typefaces with a disconnected Q tail, while uncommon, have existed since at least 1529.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6sidSDlif48C&q=q+tail+typography&pg=PA330|title=The Palaeotypography of the French Renaissance: Selected Papers on Sixteenth-century Typefaces|last=Vervliet|first=Hendrik D. L.|author-link=H. D. L. Vervliet|date=2008-01-01|publisher=BRILL|isbn=978-9004169821|pages=58 (a) 54 (b)|language=en|access-date=2020-11-19|archive-date=2022-02-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220221011132/https://books.google.com/books?id=6sidSDlif48C&q=q+tail+typography&pg=PA330|url-status=live}} A common method among type designers to create the shape of the Q is by simply adding a tail to the letter O.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xjRBBAAAQBAJ&q=q+tail+typography&pg=PA50|title=Exploring Typography|last=Rabinowitz|first=Tova|date=2015-01-01|publisher=Cengage Learning|isbn=9781305464810|pages=264|language=en|access-date=2020-11-19|archive-date=2022-02-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220221011130/https://books.google.com/books?id=xjRBBAAAQBAJ&q=q+tail+typography&pg=PA50|url-status=live}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X3_oBQAAQBAJ&q=q+tail+typography&pg=PA97|title=Adrian Frutiger – Typefaces: The Complete Works|last1=Osterer|first1=Heidrun|last2=Stamm|first2=Philipp|date=2014-05-08|publisher=Walter de Gruyter|isbn=9783038212607|pages=97 (a) 183 (b) 219 (c)|language=en|access-date=2020-11-19|archive-date=2022-02-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220221011155/https://books.google.com/books?id=X3_oBQAAQBAJ&q=q+tail+typography&pg=PA97|url-status=live}}

Old-style serif fonts, such as Garamond, may contain two uppercase Qs: one with a short tail to be used in short words, and another with a long tail to be used in long words. Some early metal type fonts included up to 3 different Qs: a short-tailed Q, a long-tailed Q, and a long-tailed Q-u ligature.{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/printingtypesthe01updi|title=Printing types, their history, forms, and use; a study in survivals|last=Updike|first=Daniel Berkeley|publisher=Harvard University Press |year=1922|isbn=1584560568|location=Cambridge, Massachusetts |via=Internet Archive}} This print tradition was alive and well until the 19th century, when long-tailed Qs fell out of favor; even recreations of classic typefaces such as Caslon began being distributed with only short Q tails.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_wn4AgAAQBAJ&q=long+tailed+Q+typography&pg=PT44|title=Type: The Secret History of Letters|last=Loxley|first=Simon|date=2006-03-31|publisher=I.B.Tauris|isbn=9780857730176|language=en|quote=The uppercase roman Q...has a very long tail, but this has been modified and reduced on versions produced in the following centuries.|access-date=2020-11-19|archive-date=2022-02-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220221011140/https://books.google.com/books?id=_wn4AgAAQBAJ&q=long+tailed+Q+typography&pg=PT44|url-status=live}} American typographer D. B. Updike, who was known to disapprove of the long-tailed Q, celebrated their demise in his 1922 book Printing Types, claiming that Renaissance printers made their Q tails longer and longer simply to "outdo each other". Latin-language words, which are much more likely than English words to contain "Q" as their first letter, have also been cited as the reason for their existence. The long-tailed Q had fallen out of use with the advent of early digital typography, as many early digital fonts could not choose different glyphs based on the word that the glyph was in, but it has seen something of a comeback with the advent of OpenType fonts and LaTeX, both of which can automatically typeset the long-tailed Q when it is called for and the short-tailed Q when it is not.{{Cite web|url=https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/210192/how-to-force-a-long-tailed-q-in-eb-garamond|title=How to force a long-tailed Q in EB Garamond|last=Fischer|first=Ulrike|date=2014-11-02|website=TeX Stack Exchange|access-date=2017-02-03|archive-date=2017-02-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170204003733/http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/210192/how-to-force-a-long-tailed-q-in-eb-garamond|url-status=live}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.typography.com/faq/157|title=What are "Stylistic Sets?"|website=Typography.com|publisher=Hoefler & Co.|language=en|access-date=2017-02-03|archive-date=2017-02-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170204084944/http://www.typography.com/faq/question.php?faqID=157|url-status=live}}

Owing to the allowable variation between letters, Q,{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SudnyGqZ5VAC&q=q+tail+typography&pg=PA31|title=Mastering Type: The Essential Guide to Typography for Print and Web Design|last=Bosler|first=Denise|date=2012-05-16|publisher=F+W Media, Inc.|isbn=978-1440313714|pages=31|language=en|quote="Letters that contain truly individual parts [are] S, ... Q..."}}{{Dead link|date=February 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} like Ampersand, is often cited as a letter that gives type designers a greater opportunity for self-expression.{{Cite web|url=https://www.fonts.com/content/learning/fontology/level-1/type-families/letter-q|title=The Letter Q|last=Haley|first=Allan|website=Fonts.com|publisher=Monotype Imaging Corporation|language=en-US|access-date=2017-02-03|archive-date=2017-02-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170203164213/https://www.fonts.com/content/learning/fontology/level-1/type-families/letter-q|url-status=live}} Identifont is an automatic typeface identification service that identifies typefaces by asking questions about their appearance and later asks about the Q tail if the "sans-serif" option is chosen.{{Cite web|url=http://www.identifont.com/identify?2+%20+9Z|title=2: Q Shape|website=Identifont|access-date=2017-02-01|archive-date=2017-02-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170203164207/http://www.identifont.com/identify?2+%20+9Z|url-status=live}} In the Identifont database, the distribution of Q tails is:{{Cite web|url=http://www.identifont.com/identify?3+.+1QY+7AG+9Z|title=3: $ style|website=Identifont|access-date=2017-02-02|archive-date=2017-02-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170203163504/http://www.identifont.com/identify?3+.+1QY+7AG+9Z|url-status=live}} To get the numbers in the table, click Question 1 (serif or sans-serif?) or Question 2 (Q shape) and change the value. They appear under X possible fonts.

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Some type designers prefer one "Q" design over another: Adrian Frutiger, famous for the airport typeface that bears his name, remarked that most of his typefaces feature a Q tail that meets the bowl and then extends horizontally. Frutiger considered such Qs to make for more "harmonious" and "gentle" typefaces. "Q" often makes the list of their favorite letters; for example, Sophie Elinor Brown, designer of Strato,{{Cite web |last=Hughes |first=Kerrie |date=2014-09-02 |title=Font of the day: Strato |url=https://www.creativebloq.com/typography/font-day-strato-91412811 |access-date=2022-08-25 |website=Creative Bloq |publisher=Future plc |location=Bath, Somerset |language=en}} has listed "Q" as being her favorite letter.{{Cite web|url=https://www.wired.com/2016/01/14-typographers-introduce-us-to-their-favorite-letterforms/|title=We asked 15 typographers to describe their favorite letterforms. Here's what they told us.|last=Heller|first=Stephen|date=2016-01-07|publisher=WIRED|access-date=2017-02-03|archive-date=2017-02-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170203163523/https://www.wired.com/2016/01/14-typographers-introduce-us-to-their-favorite-letterforms/|url-status=live}}{{Cite news|url=http://www.typographher.com/blog/2016/1/27/wired-asked-15-typographers-to-introduce-us-to-their-favorite-glyphs|title=Wired asked 15 Typographers to introduce us to their favorite glyphs.|last=Phillips|first=Nicole Arnett|date=2016-01-27|newspaper=Typograph.Her|language=en-US|access-date=2017-02-03|archive-date=2017-02-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170203164623/http://www.typographher.com/blog/2016/1/27/wired-asked-15-typographers-to-introduce-us-to-their-favorite-glyphs|url-status=live}}

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The lowercase "q" is usually seen as a lowercase "o" or "c" with a descender (i.e., downward vertical tail) extending from the right side of the bowl, with or without a swash (i.e., flourish), or even a reversed lowercase p. The "q"'s descender is usually typed without a swash due to the major style difference typically seen between the descenders of the "g" (a loop) and "q" (vertical). When handwritten, or as part of a handwriting font, the descender of the "q" sometimes finishes with a rightward swash to distinguish it from the letter "g" (or, particularly in mathematics, from the digit "9").

In English, the digraph {{angbr|qu}} most often denotes the cluster {{IPAc-en|k|w}}; however, in borrowings from French, it represents {{IPAc-en|k}}, as in 'plaque'. See the list of English words containing Q not followed by U. Q is the second least frequently used letter in the English language (after Z), with a frequency of just 0.1% in words. Q has the fourth fewest English words where it is the first letter, after X, Z, and Y.

In most European languages written in the Latin script, such as Romance and Germanic languages, {{angbr|q}} appears almost exclusively in the digraph {{angbr|qu}}. In French, Occitan, Catalan, and Portuguese, {{angbr|qu}} represents {{IPA|/k/}} or {{IPA|/kw/}}; in Spanish, it represents {{IPA|/k/}}. {{angbr|qu}} replaces {{angbr|c}} for {{IPA|/k/}} before front vowels {{angbr|i}} and {{angbr|e}}, since in those languages {{angbr|c}} represents a fricative or affricate before front vowels. In Italian, {{angbr|qu}} represents {{IPA|[kw]}} (where {{IPA|[w]}} is the semivowel allophone of {{IPA|/u/}}). In Albanian, Q represents {{IPA|/c/}}, as in Shqip.

The letter is often not used often or at all in other languages, The letter is not officially part of the Cornish (Standard Written Form), Estonian, Icelandic, Irish, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Serbo-Croatian, Scottish Gaelic, Slovenian, Turkish, or Welsh alphabets. However, in some of them, it may be found in borrowings.

{{angbr|q}} has a wide variety of other pronunciations in some European languages and in non-European languages that have adopted the Latin alphabet.

The International Phonetic Alphabet uses {{angbr IPA|q}} for the voiceless uvular stop.

{{main article|Q (disambiguation)}}

• The capital letter Q is used as the currency symbol for the Guatemalan quetzal.
• The Roman numeral Q is sometimes used to represent the number 500,000.{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/illustratedintro0000gord | url-access=registration | quote=roman numerals. | title=Illustrated Introduction to Latin Epigraphy | publisher=University of California Press | date=1983 | access-date=3 October 2015 | author=Gordon, Arthur E. | pages=[https://archive.org/details/illustratedintro0000gord/page/44 44]| isbn=9780520038981 }}

• Q with diacritics: ʠ Ɋ ɋ q̃
• Japanese linguistics: Small capital q (ꞯ){{Citation|title=L2/15-241: Proposal to encode Latin small capital letter Q|url=https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2015/15241-small-cap-q.pdf|date=2015-10-10|first=Severin|last=Barmeier|access-date=2018-06-19|archive-date=2019-06-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190614230138/http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2015/15241-small-cap-q.pdf|url-status=live}} and modifier letter capital q (ꟴ){{Cite web|title=L2/20-251: Unicode request for modifier Latin capital letters|url=https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2020/20251-mod-latin.pdf|date=2020-09-25|first1=Kirk|last1=Miller|first2=Craig|last2=Cornelius}}
• 𐞥 Modifier letter small q is used as a superscript IPA letter{{Cite web|title=L2/20-252R: Unicode request for IPA modifier-letters (a), pulmonic|url=https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2020/20252r-mod-ipa-a.pdf|date=2020-11-08|first1=Kirk|last1=Miller|first2=Michael|last2=Ashby}}
• Gha: Ƣ ƣ

• 𐤒: Semitic letter Qoph, from which the following symbols originally derive:
• Ϙ ϙ: Greek letter Koppa
• 𐌒: Old Italic Q, which is the ancestor of modern Latin Q
• Ԛ ԛ: Cyrillic letter Qa

• ℺: rotated capital Q, a signature mark
• Ꝗ ꝗ, Ꝙ ꝙ: Various forms of Q were used for medieval scribal abbreviations{{Cite web|url=https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2006/06027-n3027-medieval.pdf|title=L2/06-027: Proposal to add Medievalist characters to the UCS|date=2006-01-30|first1=Michael|last1=Everson|first2=Peter|last2=Baker|first3=António|last3=Emiliano|first4=Florian|last4=Grammel|first5=Odd Einar|last5=Haugen|first6=Diana|last6=Luft|first7=Susana|last7=Pedro|first8=Gerd|last8=Schumacher|first9=Andreas|last9=Stötzner|access-date=2018-03-24|archive-date=2018-09-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180919051622/https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2006/06027-n3027-medieval.pdf|url-status=live}}

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• {{Annotated link |List of English words containing Q not followed by U}}
• {{Annotated link |Mind your Ps and Qs}}
• {{Annotated link |Q factor}}
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