A (Cyrillic)

Cyrillic letter А
Numeric value:	1
Phonetic usage:	[a], [ɑ], [ə]
The Cyrillic script
Slavic letters
Non-Slavic letters
Archaic letters
	List of Cyrillic letters; Cyrillic digraphs;

А (Azǔ/Азъ)
	А а
	(See below) А
Usage
Writing system	Cyrillic script
Type	Alphabetic
Language of origin	Old Church Slavonic
Phonetic usage	[a]; [ɑ]; [ə]
Unicode value	U+0410, U+0430
Alphabetical position	1; Numerical value: 1
History
Time period	~900 to present
Descendants	• Я;
Sisters	A; Α α; א; ا; ܐ; አ; Ա ա; 𐌀 Ａ ᴀ
Transliteration equivalents	A (Latin script)
Variations	(See below) А
Other
Other letters commonly used with	аң
Associated numbers	1

А (А а; 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.

Letter А, page from Elisabeth Boehm's Azbuka

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 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 and lower case forms.

Usage

In most languages that use the Cyrillic alphabet – such as Ukrainian, Belarusian, Russian, Rusyn, Serbian, Macedonian, Montenegrin 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

Computing codes

Character information
Preview	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
Named character reference	&Acy;		&acy;
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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References

"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.

External links

The dictionary definition of А at Wiktionary
The dictionary definition of а at Wiktionary

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[1] "Tuvan language, alphabet and pronunciation". omniglot.com. Retrieved 14 June 2016.

[2] Campbell, George L.; King, Gareth (24 July 2013). "Compendium of the World's Languages". Routledge. Retrieved 14 June 2016 – via Google Books.