A (Cyrillic)

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 denotes /a/. 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, 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
Unicode	Small	1072	0430	002060	0000010000110000
ISO 8859-5	Capital	176	b0	260	0010110000
ISO 8859-5	Small	208	d0	320	0011010000
KOI 8	Capital	225	e1	341	0011100001
KOI 8	Small	193	c1	301	0011000001
Windows 1251	Capital	192	c0	300	0011000000
Windows 1251	Small	224	e0	340	0011100000

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