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A bra, short for brassiere or brassière (, or ; ), is a form-fitting undergarment that is primarily used to support and cover breasts. It can serve a range of other practical and aesthetic purposes, including enhancing or reducing the appea ...
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Related characters
Descendants and related characters in the Latin alphabet
*Æ æ : Latin ''AE'' ligature
*A with diacritics: Å å Ǻ ǻ Ḁ ḁ ẚ
The modifier letter right half ring () is a character of the Unicode Spacing Modifier Letters range, used to transliterate:
* the letter aleph
* the Arabic letter hamza
See also
* Modifier letter left half ring
* Half ring
* Apostrophe
* Glottal ...
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In phonetics, an r-colored or rhotic vowel (also called a retroflex vowel, vocalic r, or a rhotacized vowel) is a vowel that is modified in a way that results in a lowering in frequency of the third formant. R-colored vowels can be articulat ...
* Phonetic alphabet symbols related to A (the International Phonetic Alphabet only uses lowercase, but uppercase forms are used in some other writing systems):
**Ɑ ɑ : Latin letter alpha / script A, which represents an open back unrounded vowel in the IPA
**ᶐ : Latin small letter alpha with retroflex hook
**Ɐ ɐ : Turned A
Turned A (capital: Ɐ, lowercase: ɐ, math symbol ∀) is a letter and symbol based upon the letter A.
Modern Usage
* Lowercase ɐ (in Roman or two story form) is used in the International Phonetic Alphabet to identify the near-open centra ...
, which represents a near-open central vowel in the IPA
**Λ ʌ : Turned V (also called a wedge, a caret, or a hat), which represents an open-mid back unrounded vowel in the IPA
**Ɒ ɒ : Turned alpha / script A, which represents an open back rounded vowel in the IPA
**ᶛ : Modifier letter small turned alpha
**ᴀ : Small capital A, an obsolete or non-standard symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet used to represent various sounds (mainly open vowels)
**A a ᵄ : Modifier letters are used in the Uralic Phonetic Alphabet (UPA) (sometimes encoded with Unicode subscripts and superscripts
Unicode has subscripted and superscripted versions of a number of characters including a full set of Arabic numerals. These characters allow any polynomial, chemical and certain other equations to be represented in plain text without using any ...
)
**a : Subscript small a is used in Indo-European studies
**ꬱ : Small letter a reversed-schwa is used in the Teuthonista phonetic transcription system
**Ꞻ ꞻ : Glottal A, used in the transliteration of Ugaritic
Derived signs, symbols and abbreviations
*ª : an ordinal indicator
*Å : Ångström
The angstromEntry "angstrom" in the Oxford online dictionary. Retrieved on 2019-03-02 from https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/angstrom.Entry "angstrom" in the Merriam-Webster online dictionary. Retrieved on 2019-03-02 from https://www.m ...
sign
*∀ : a turned capital letter A, used in predicate logic
First-order logic—also known as predicate logic, quantificational logic, and first-order predicate calculus—is a collection of formal systems used in mathematics, philosophy, linguistics, and computer science. First-order logic uses quantifi ...
to specify universal quantification
In mathematical logic, a universal quantification is a type of quantifier, a logical constant which is interpreted as "given any" or "for all". It expresses that a predicate can be satisfied by every member of a domain of discourse. In other ...
("for all")
*@ : At sign
The at sign, , is normally read aloud as "at"; it is also commonly called the at symbol, commercial at, or address sign. It is used as an accounting and invoice abbreviation meaning "at a rate of" (e.g. 7 widgets @ £2 per widget = £14), but ...
*₳ : Argentine austral
The austral was the currency of Argentina between June 15, 1985, and December 31, 1991. It was subdivided into 100 centavos. The symbol was an uppercase A with an extra horizontal line, code point . This symbol appeared on all coins issued in ...
*Ⓐ : anarchy symbol
Ancestors and siblings in other alphabets
*𐤀 : Semitic letter Aleph
Aleph (or alef or alif, transliterated ʾ) is the first letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician , Hebrew , Aramaic , Syriac , Arabic ʾ and North Arabian 𐪑. It also appears as South Arabian 𐩱 and Ge'ez .
These lette ...
, from which the following symbols originally derive
**Α α : Greek letter Alpha
Alpha (uppercase , lowercase ; grc, ἄλφα, ''álpha'', or ell, άλφα, álfa) is the first letter of the Greek alphabet. In the system of Greek numerals, it has a value of one. Alpha is derived from the Phoenician letter aleph , whic ...
, from which the following letters derive
***А а : Cyrillic
, bg, кирилица , mk, кирилица , russian: кириллица , sr, ћирилица, uk, кирилиця
, fam1 = Egyptian hieroglyphs
, fam2 = Proto-Sinaitic
, fam3 = Phoenician
, fam4 = Gr ...
letter A
*** : Coptic
Coptic may refer to:
Afro-Asia
* Copts, an ethnoreligious group mainly in the area of modern Egypt but also in Sudan and Libya
* Coptic language, a Northern Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Egypt until at least the 17th century
* Coptic alphabet, t ...
letter Alpha
***𐌀 : Old Italic A, which is the ancestor of modern Latin A
**** : Runic
Runes are the letters in a set of related alphabets known as runic alphabets native to the Germanic peoples. Runes were used to write various Germanic languages (with some exceptions) before they adopted the Latin alphabet, and for specialised ...
letter ansuz
Ansuz is the conventional name given to the ''a''-rune of the Elder Futhark, .
The name is based on Proto-Germanic ''* ansuz'', denoting a deity belonging to the principal pantheon in Germanic paganism.
The shape of the rune is likely from Ne ...
, which probably derives from old Italic A
*** : Gothic
Gothic or Gothics may refer to:
People and languages
*Goths or Gothic people, the ethnonym of a group of East Germanic tribes
**Gothic language, an extinct East Germanic language spoken by the Goths
**Crimean Gothic, the Gothic language spoken b ...
letter aza/asks
*Ա ա : Armenian letter Ayb
Code points
These are the code points for the forms of the letter in various systems
: 1
Other representations
Use as a number
In the hexadecimal (base 16) numbering system, A is a number that corresponds to the number 10 in decimal (base 10) counting.
Notes
Footnotes
References
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History of the Alphabet
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ISO basic Latin letters
Vowel letters