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Cyrillic letter A 
Cyrillic numerals: 1 Unicode (hex) majuscule: U+0410 minuscule: U+0430 Cyrillic script
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It commonly represents an open front unrounded vowel /a/, like 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/.
Computing codes
character А а Unicode name CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER A CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER A character encoding decimal hex decimal hex Unicode 1040 0410 1072 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
External links
The Wiktionary definition of А- The Wiktionary definition of а
Categories:- Cyrillic letters
- Vowel letters
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