А (Cyrillic)

Cyrillic letter A
Cyrillic numerals: 1
Unicode (hex)
majuscule: U+0410
minuscule: U+0430
Cyrillic script
Slavic letters
А Б В Г Ґ Д Ђ
Ѓ Е Ѐ Ё Є Ж З
Ѕ И Ѝ І Ї Й Ј
К Л Љ М Н Њ О
П Р С Т Ћ Ќ У
Ў Ф Х Ц Ч Џ Ш
Щ Ъ Ы Ь Э Ю Я
Non-Slavic letters
Ӑ Ӓ Ә Ӛ Ӕ Ғ Ҕ
Ӻ Ӷ Ԁ Ԃ Ӗ Ӂ
Җ Ӝ Ԅ Ҙ Ӟ Ԑ Ӡ
Ԇ Ӣ Ҋ Ӥ Қ Ӄ Ҡ
Ҟ Ҝ Ԟ Ԛ Ӆ Ԓ Ԡ
Ԉ Ԕ Ӎ Ӊ Ң Ӈ Ҥ
Ԣ Ԋ Ӧ Ө Ӫ Ҩ Ԥ
Ҧ Ҏ Ԗ Ҫ Ԍ Ҭ Ԏ
Ӯ Ӱ Ӳ Ү Ұ Ҳ Ӽ
Ӿ Һ Ԧ Ҵ Ҷ Ӵ Ӌ
Ҹ Ҽ Ҿ Ӹ Ҍ Ӭ
Ԙ Ԝ Ӏ
Archaic letters
Ҁ Ѻ Ѹ Ѡ Ѿ Ѣ
Ѥ Ѧ Ѫ Ѩ Ѭ Ѯ
Ѱ Ѳ Ѵ Ѷ    
List of Cyrillic letters
Cyrillic digraphs

A (А а; italics: А а) is a letter of the Cyrillic script.

It commonly represents an open front unrounded vowel /a/, like the pronunciation of ⟨a⟩ in "father".

The Cyrillic letter A is romanized using the Latin letter A.

Contents

History

The Cyrillic letter A 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 A had a value of 1.

Form

Through history the Cyrillic letter А has had various shapes, but today is standardised on one that looks exactly like the Latin letter A, including the italic forms.

Usage

In most languages that use the Cyrillic alphabet – such as Russian, Serbian, Macedonian and Bulgarian – the Cyrillic letter A represents the open front unrounded vowel /a/.

In Ingush and Chechen the Cyrillic letter A represents both the open back unrounded vowel /ɑ/ and the mid-central vowel /ə/.

Computing codes

character А а
Unicode name CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER A CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER A
character encoding decimal hex decimal hex
Unicode 1040 0410 1072 0430
UTF-8 208 144 D0 90 208 176 D0 B0
Numeric character reference А А 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

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