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Cyrillic letter A
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Cyrillic alphabet
А	Б	В	Г	Ґ	Ѓ	Д
Ђ	Е	Ё	Є	Ж	З	Ѕ
И	І	Ї	Й	Ј	К	Ќ
Л	Љ	М	Н	Њ	О	П
Р	С	Т	Ћ	У	Ў	Ф
Х	Ц	Ч	Џ	Ш	Щ	Ъ
Ы	Ь	Э	Ю	Я
Non-Slavic Letters
Ӑ	Ә	Ӕ	Ҕ	Ӗ	Ғ	Ӏ
Ӂ	Җ	Ӝ	Ҙ	Ӟ	Ӡ	Ӣ
Ӥ	Ҡ	Қ	Ҟ	Ҝ	Ң	Ҥ
Ө	Ӧ	Ҧ	Ҫ	Ҷ	Ҹ	Ӵ
Ҽ	Ҿ	Ҩ	Ҳ	Һ	Ҭ	Ҵ
Ӳ	Ӯ	Ү	Ұ	Ӱ
Archaic letters
Ҁ	Ѹ	Ѡ	Ѿ	Ѻ	Ѣ	ІА
Ѥ	Ѧ	Ѫ	Ѩ	Ѭ	Ѯ	Ѱ
Ѳ	Ѵ	Ѷ

A (А, а) is the first letter of the Cyrillic alphabet.

It arose directly from the Greek letter alpha. In the Early Cyrillic alphabet its name was azǔ and it had a numerical value of 1.

In many languages that use Cyrillic, such as Russian, Serbian, Macedonian and Bulgarian, it is denotes /a/. It may also represent /ɑ/ and /ə/ in languages such as Ingush and Chechen.

Through history, it has had various shapes, but today is standardised on one that looks exactly like the Latin a (including the italicized form).

[edit] 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	0010110000
	Small	208	d0	320	0011010000
KOI 8	Capital	225	e1	341	0011100001
	Small	193	c1	301	0011000001
Windows 1251	Capital	192	c0	300	0011000000
	Small	224	e0	340	0011100000

Its HTML entities are: А or А for capital and а or а for small letter.

[edit] See also

• A
• Alphabg:А

de:A (Kyrillisch) eo:A (cirila alfabeto) eu:A (Ziriliko) fr:A (cyrillique) gl:A (Cirílico) ko:А it:А (Cirillico) ht:А ja:А no:А nn:А pl:A (cyrylica) pt:A (cirílico) ru:А (кириллица) sr:А (ћириличко) fi:А sv:А tr:A (Kiril) uk:А (літера) zh:А