A (Cyrillic)
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| A (Azǔ/Азъ) | |
|---|---|
| А а | |
| (See below) A | |
| Usage | |
| Writing system | Cyrillic script |
| Type | Alphabet ic |
| Language of origin | Old Church Slavonic |
| Phonetic usage | [a] [ɑ] [ə] |
| Unicode value | U+0410, U+0430 |
| Alphabetical position | 1 Numerical value: 1 |
| History | |
| Development | |
| Time period | ~900 to present |
| Descendants | • Я |
| Sisters | A Α α א ا ܐ አ Ա ա 𐌀 |
| Transliteration equivalents | A (Latin script) |
| Variations | (See below) A |
| Other | |
| Other letters commonly used with | аң |
| Associated numbers | 1 |
A (А а; italics: А а) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. It commonly represents an open central unrounded vowel /a/, like the pronunciation of ⟨a⟩ in "father". The Cyrillic letter А is romanized using the Latin letter A.
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History[edit]
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 had a value of 1.
Form[edit]
Through history the Cyrillic letter A has had various shapes, but today is standardised on one that looks exactly like the Latin letter A, including the italic and lower case forms.
Usage[edit]
In most languages that use the Cyrillic alphabet – such as Ukrainian, Belarusian, Russian, Serbian, Macedonian and Bulgarian – the Cyrillic letter А represents the open central unrounded vowel /a/. In Ingush and Chechen the Cyrillic letter А represents both the open back unrounded vowel /ɑ/ and the mid-central vowel /ə/. In Tuvan the letter can be written as a double vowel.[1][2]
Related letters and other similar characters[edit]
- A a : Latin letter A
- Ă ă : Latin letter A with breve, used in Romanian language and Vietnamese language.
- Ä ä : Latin letter A with diaeresis
- Â â : Latin letter A with circumflex, after used in Vietnamese letter 3rd.
- Α α : Greek letter Alpha
Computing codes[edit]
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| Character | А | а | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode name | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER A | CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER A | ||
| Encodings | decimal | hex | decimal | 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 |
| 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[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ "Tuvan language, alphabet and pronunciation". omniglot.com. Retrieved 14 June 2016.
- ^ Campbell, George L.; King, Gareth (24 July 2013). "Compendium of the World's Languages". Routledge. Retrieved 14 June 2016 – via Google Books.