A
Appearance
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Cursive script 'a' and capital 'A' in the U.S. D'Nealian script style
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A aw [ɑ:, ɔ:, N. I. a:],[1] plural aws is the first letter an vouel in the ISO basic Laitin alphabet. It is seemilar tae the Auncient Greek letter alphae that it comes frae.
History
[eedit | eedit soorce]The erest for certain forebeir o the letter A is the Phoenician aleph (whiles scrievit 'aleph), the first letter o the Phoenicial alphabet[2], whaurfrae the seemilar Greek, Etruscan an Roman letters. Aleph itsel mey be ultimately frae the Egyptian hieroglyphic o an ox's heid bi a Proto-Semitic[3] seemplification.
Egyptian hieroglyph ox |
Proto-Semitic A |
Phoenician aleph |
Greek Alpha |
Etruscan A |
Roman A |
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Sib letters an ither seemilar chairacters
[eedit | eedit soorce]- Α α : Greek letter Alpha
- А а : Cyrillic letter A
- Ɑ ɑ : Latin letter Alpha / Script A (or: A a)
- ɐ : a turned lawercase letter A, uised bi the Internaitional Phonetic Alphabet for the near-open central vowel
- ∀ : a turned caipital letter A, uised in predicate logic tae specify universal quantification ("for aw")
- ª : an ordinal indicator
- Æ æ : Latin letter Æ ligature
Computin codes
[eedit | eedit soorce]Character | A | a | ||
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Unicode name | LAITIN CAIPITAL LETTER A | LAITIN SMAW LETTER A | ||
Encodins | decimal | hex | decimal | hex |
Unicode | 65 | U+0041 | 97 | U+0061 |
UTF-8 | 65 | 41 | 97 | 61 |
Numeric chairacter reference | A | A | a | a |
EBCDIC faimily | 193 | C1 | 129 | 81 |
ASCII 1 | 65 | 41 | 97 | 61 |
- 1 An aa for encodins based on ASCII, includin the DOS, Windows, ISO-8859 an Macintosh faimilies o encodins.
Ither representations
[eedit | eedit soorce]NATO phonetic | Morse code |
Alpha |
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Seegnal banner | Banner semaphore | American manual alphabet (ASL fingerspellin) | Braille dots-1 |
References
[eedit | eedit soorce]- ↑ "Archived copy". Archived frae the original on 2 Julie 2013. Retrieved 3 Julie 2013.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- ↑ Hoiberg, Dale H., ed. (2010). "A". Encyclopædia Britannica (in Inglis). 1: A-ak–Bayes. Chicago, IL: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. p. 1. ISBN 978-1-59339-837-8.
- ↑ Hall-Quest, Olga Wilbourne (1997). "A". In Johnston, Bernard (ed.). Collier's Encyclopedia (in Inglis). I: A to Ameland (First ed.). New York, NY: P.F. Collier. p. 1.
Freemit airtins
[eedit | eedit soorce]- History o the Alphabet Archived 2021-04-10 at the Wayback Machine
- "A" in A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson
- Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "A" (entry). Encyclopædia Britannica (Eleventh ed.). Cambridge University Press.
- "A". The New Student's Reference Work. Chicago: F. E. Compton and Co. 1914.
- "A". Collier's New Encyclopedia. 1921.
Aa | Bb | Cc | Dd | Ee | Ff | Gg | Hh | Ii | Jj | Kk | Ll | Mm | Nn | Oo | Pp | Rr | Ss | Tt | Uu | Vv | Ww | Xx | Yy | Zz | ||
Letter A with diacritics
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Áá | Àà | Ăă | Ắắ | Ằằ | Ẵẵ | Ẳẳ | Ââ | Ấấ | Ầầ | Ẫẫ | Ẩẩ | Ǎǎ | Åå | Ǻǻ | Ää | Ǟǟ | Ãã | Ȧȧ | Ǡǡ | Ąą | Āā | Ảả | Ȁȁ | Ȃȃ | Ạạ | |
Ặặ | Ậậ | Ḁḁ | Ⱥⱥ | ᶏ | Ɐɐ | Ɑɑ | ||||||||||||||||||||
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