A (Cyrillic) Information
A (А а; italics: А а) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet.
It commonly represents an open front unrounded vowel /a/, like the the pronunciation of ‹a› in "father".
The Cyrillic letter A is romanized using the Latin letter A.
Letter А in ABC by Elisabeth Bohm
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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/.
Code positions
| Character encoding | Case | Decimal | Hexadecimal | Octal | Binary |
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| Unicode | Capital | 1040 | 0410 | 002020 | 0000010000010000 |
| Small | 1072 | 0430 | 002060 | 0000010000110000 | |
| ISO 8859-5 | Capital | 176 | b0 | 260 | 10110000 |
| Small | 208 | d0 | 320 | 11010000 | |
| KOI 8 | Capital | 225 | e1 | 341 | 11100001 |
| Small | 193 | c1 | 301 | 11000001 | |
| Windows 1251 | Capital | 192 | c0 | 300 | 11000000 |
| Small | 224 | e0 | 340 | 11100000 |
U+0410 А cyrillic capital letter a (HTML: А )
U+0430 а cyrillic small letter a (HTML: а )
See also
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Categories: Cyrillic letters | Vowel letters
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