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**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
The Uralic Phonetic Alphabet (UPA) or Finno-Ugric transcription system is a phonetic transcription or notational system used predominantly for the transcription and reconstruction of Uralic languages. It was first published in 1901 by Eemil Nesto ...
(UPA) (sometimes encoded with Unicode subscripts and superscripts)
**a : Subscript small a is used in Indo-European studies
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**ꬱ : Small letter a reversed-schwa is used in the Teuthonista
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phonetic transcription system
**Ꞻ ꞻ : Glottal A, used in the transliteration of Ugaritic
Derived signs, symbols and abbreviations
*ª : an ordinal indicator
*Å : Ångström sign
*∀ : a turned capital letter A, used in predicate logic 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 w ...
("for all")
*@ : At sign
*₳ : Argentine austral
*Ⓐ : 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 letter ...
, 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 = G ...
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 ...
letter Alpha
***𐌀 : Old Italic A, which is the ancestor of modern Latin A
**** : Runic 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 N ...
, 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
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(base 16) numbering system, A is a number that corresponds to the number 10 in decimal
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(base 10) counting.
Notes
Footnotes
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External links
History of the Alphabet
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ISO basic Latin letters
Vowel letters