A (Cyrillic)
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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 one.
In many languages that use Cyrillic, such as Russian, Serbian, Macedonian and Bulgarian, it is pronounced as /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).
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.
See also
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