A (Cyrillic)
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А
)| А (Azǔ/Азъ) | |
|---|---|
| А а | |
| (See below) А | |
𐌀 Ａ ᴀ | |
| Transliteration equivalents | A (Latin script) |
| Variations | (See below) А |
| Other | |
| Associated numbers | 1 |
| Writing direction | Left-to-Right |
| Cyrillic letter А | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Ꙕ | Ю̂ |  |  | Ꙗ | |||
| Я̈ | Я̂ | Я̨ | Ԙ | Ѥ | Ѧ | Ꙙ | Ѫ |
| Ꙛ | Ѩ | Ꙝ | Ѭ | Ѯ | Ѱ | Ѳ | Ѵ |
| Ѷ | Ꙟ | ||||||
А (А а; italics: А а) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. It commonly represents an open central unrounded vowel /ä/, halfway between the pronunciation of ⟨a⟩ in "cat" and "father". The Cyrillic letter А is romanized using the Latin letter A.
History
The Cyrillic letter А was derived directly from the
Greek letter Alpha (Α α). In the Early Cyrillic alphabet its name was азъ (azǔ), meaning "I". In the Cyrillic numeral system
, the Cyrillic letter А has a value of 1.
Form
Throughout history, the Cyrillic letter А has had various shapes, but today is standardised on one that
lower case
forms.
Usage
In most languages that use the Cyrillic alphabet – such as
Related letters and other similar characters
- A a : Latin letter A
- Á á : Latin letter Á
- Α α : Greek letter Alpha
- Ă ă : Latin letter A with Breve
- Â â : Latin letter A with Circumflex
- Ā ā : Latin letter A with Macron
- Æ æ : Latin letter Æ
- Ă ă : Latin letter A with breve
Computing codes
| Preview | А | а | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode name | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER A | CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER A | ||
| Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex |
| Unicode | 1040 | U+0410 | 1072 | U+0430 |
| UTF-8 | 208 144 | D0 90 | 208 176 | D0 B0 |
| Numeric character reference | А |
А |
а |
а |
| Named character reference | А | а | ||
| KOI8-R and KOI8-U | 225 | E1 | 193 | C1 |
| CP 855 | 161 | A1 | 160 | A0 |
| Windows-1251 | 192 | C0 | 224 | E0 |
ISO-8859-5 |
176 | B0 | 208 | D0 |
Mac Cyrillic |
128 | 80 | 224 | E0 |
See also
- Cyrillic characters in Unicode
References
- ^ "Tuvan language, alphabet and pronunciation". omniglot.com. Retrieved 14 June 2016.
- ISBN 9781136258459. Retrieved 14 June 2016 – via Google Books.
