A (Cyrillic)

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It is also used in the [[Ingush language|Ingush]] and [[Chechen language|Chechen]] languages to represent {{IPA|/ɑ/}} and {{IPA|/ə/}}.
It is also used in the [[Ingush language|Ingush]] and [[Chechen language|Chechen]] languages to represent {{IPA|/ɑ/}} and {{IPA|/ə/}}.
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! [[Character encoding]] !! [[Case (orthography)|Case]] !! [[Decimal]] !! [[Hexadecimal]] !! [[Octal]] !! [[Binary numeral system|Binary]]
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|rowspan=2|[[Unicode]]||[[Majuscule|Capital]]||align="right"|1040||align="right"|0410||align="right"|002020||align="right"|0000010000010000
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| |[[Lower case|Small]]||align="right"|1072||align="right"|0430||align="right"|002060||align="right"|0000010000110000
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|rowspan=2|[[ISO 8859-5|ISO 8859-5]]||Capital||align="right"|176||align="right"|b0||align="right"|260||align="right"|10110000
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| |Small||align="right"|208||align="right"|d0||align="right"|320||align="right"|11010000
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|rowspan=2|[[KOI 8|KOI 8]]||Capital||align="right"|225||align="right"|e1||align="right"|341||align="right"|11100001
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| |Small||align="right"|193||align="right"|c1||align="right"|301||align="right"|11000001
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|rowspan=2|[[Windows 1251|Windows 1251]]||Capital||align="right"|192||align="right"|c0||align="right"|300||align="right"|11000000
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== See also ==
== See also ==
*[[A|A, a (Latin)]]
*[[A|A, a (Latin)]]
*[[Alpha (letter)|Α, α - Alpha (Greek)]]
*[[Alpha (letter)|Α, α - Alpha (Greek)]]

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Cyrillic alphabet
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 Ҧ Ҏ
Ԗ Ҫ Ԍ Ҭ Ԏ Ӯ Ӱ
Ӳ Ү Ұ Ҳ Ӽ Ӿ Һ
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 alphabet.

It commonly represents an open front unrounded vowel /a/.

In the romanization systems for the Russian, Bulgarian, and Ukrainian languages it is romanized using the Latin letter A.

Letter А in ABC by Elisabeth Bohm
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.

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Usage

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

It is also used in the Ingush and Chechen languages to represent /ɑ/ and /ə/.


See also

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