А

From Textus Receptus

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.

Contents 1 History 2 Form 3 Usage 4 Code positions 5 See also

History

The Cyrillic letter A was derived directly from the Greek letter Alpha (Α, α).

In the Early Cyrillic alphabet its name was Template:Script (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 an open front unrounded vowel /a/.

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

Code positions

Character encoding	Case	Decimal	Hexadecimal	Octal	Binary
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

See also

• A, a (Latin)
• Α, α - Alpha (Greek)