A (‹А, 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 "азъ" (azǔ) means "I" and it had a numerical value of 1.

In most languages that use Cyrillic, such as Russian, Serbian, Macedonian and Bulgarian, ‹а› denotes /a/, the open front unrounded vowel. It may also represent /ɑ/ and /ə/ in languages such as Ingush and Chechen.

In the romanization systems for the Russian, Bulgarian, and Ukrainian languages, it is romanized as the Latin letter ‹A›.

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

Code positions

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See also

• A
• Alpha

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

It came from the Greek alpha. A long time ago, it was called azǔ and stood for the number 1 (number). It looks exactly the same and is the same as the Roman A.

All languages that use the Cyrillic alphabet say it as [a].

Other pages

• A
• Alpha (letter)