A

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.

A Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee Ff Gg Hh Ii Jj Kk Ll Mm Nn Oo Pp Qq Rr Ss Tt Uu Vv Ww Xx Yy Zz

Cursive script 'a' and capital 'A' in the U.S. D'Nealian script style

History

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

Sib letters an ither seemilar chairacters

Different glyphs o the lawercase letter A.

• Α α : Greek letter Alpha
• А а : Cyrillic letter A
• Ɑ ɑ : Laitin 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 : Laitin letter Æ ligature

Computin codes

Character	A		a
Unicode name	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A		LATIN SMALL 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

NATO phonetic	Morse code
Alpha	·–

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