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Shha with high right breve serif also referred as Shha with high right breve capital serif (, is a letter from the Cyrillic script.
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In A:
А (Azǔ/Азъ) | |
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А а | |
(See below) А | |
Usage | |
Writing system | Cyrillic script |
Type | Alphabetic |
Language of origin | Old Church Slavonic |
Sound values | [a] [ɑ] [ə] |
In Unicode | U+0410, U+0430 |
Alphabetical position | 1 Numerical value: 1 |
History | |
Development | |
Time period | ~900 to present |
Descendants | • Я |
Sisters | A Α α א ا ܐ አ Ա ա 𐌀 A ᴀ |
Transliterations | A (Latin script) |
Variations | (See below) А |
Other | |
Associated numbers | 1 |
Writing direction | Left-to-right |
А (А а; italics: 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.
History
editThe 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 has a value of 1.
Form
editThroughout 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
editIn most languages that use the Cyrillic alphabet – such as Bulgarian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Russian, Rusyn, Serbian, Macedonian and Montenegrin – 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
edit- A a : Latin letter A
- Á á : Latin letter Á
- Α α : Greek letter Alpha
- Ă ă : Latin letter A with Breve
- Â â : Latin letter A with Circumflex
- Ā ā : Latin letter A with Macron
- Æ æ : Latin letter Æ
- Ă ă : Latin letter A with breve
Computing codes
editPreview | А | а | ||
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Unicode name | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER A | CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER A | ||
Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | 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 | 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
editReferences
edit- ^ "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. ISBN 9781136258459. Retrieved 14 June 2016 – via Google Books.
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