A (Cyrillic)
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| Cyrillic letter A | ||||||
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| Cyrillic numerals: 1 | ||||||
| Unicode (hex) | ||||||
| majuscule: U+0410 | ||||||
| minuscule: U+0430 | ||||||
| Cyrillic script Slavic letters |
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| 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 | Ꚉ | 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 | Ꚇ | Ҽ | Ҿ | Ӹ | Ҍ | Ӭ |
| Ԙ | Ԝ | Ӏ | ||||
| Archaic letters | ||||||
| Ҁ | Ѻ | Ѹ | Ѡ | Ѿ | Ѣ | Ꙓ |
| Ꙗ | Ѥ | Ѧ | Ѫ | Ѩ | Ѭ | Ѯ |
| Ѱ | Ѳ | Ѵ | Ѷ | Ꙟ | ||
| 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.
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[edit] 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.
[edit] 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.
[edit] 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/.
[edit] 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 |
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
The Wiktionary entry for А- The Wiktionary entry for а
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