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A (Letter)

A

Spellings
Capital	A
Bas-de-casse	has
Use
Alphabets	Latin
Order	¹
Phonemes main	/ / / / / A /

A is the first letter of the alphabet Latin and Etruscan , and their first vowel. It is also the capital of the letter of the Greek alphabet and the the Cyrillic alphabet.

Summary

History

Egyptian hieroglyph
ox head

Proto-Sinaitic
ox head

Phoenician aleph

Greek Alpha

Etruscan A

A Roman

Evolution of the letter from the alphabet linear proto-Sinaitic.

The letter A probably takes its origin from the Proto-Sinaitic alphabet linear , an alphabet used in the Sinai, there are over 3500 years, itself derived from Egyptian hieroglyphs , the sound, Typography

The letter tiny drift of modern Greek writing, which evolved from a graphic similar to the capital to present a circular shape with a projection, around the ^fourth century.


Gothic	Uncial	Modern Roman	Modern Italic	Modern Script
Some examples of graphs of the letter A

Diacritics A

The letter A can be equipped with diacritics in the writing of a number of languages using the Latin alphabet:

At / To: grave accent ( Catalan , Scottish , French , Italian , Occitan , Portuguese , Algonquin )
/ : acute accent ( Spanish , Faroese , Hungarian , Irish , Icelandic , Occitan , Portuguese , Slovak , Czech , Vietnamese )
/ : circumflex accent ( French , Portuguese , Romanian , Walloon )
/ : tilde ( Kashubian , Portuguese )
/ : umlaut ( German , Estonian , Finnish , Portuguese , Slovak , Swedish )
/ : Round Head ( Danish , Norwegian , Swedish , Walloon )
TO / A macron ( Latvian , Tahitian )
/ : short ( Vietnamese , Romanian )
/ : hatchek ( Pinyin , Lingala , Croatian , Czech , Slovak , Slovenian )
/ A: ogonek ( Polish )
A / a: cedilla ( doayo , Gbaya , kako , Karang , mundani , Vute )
/ : suscrit point ( ulithien )
In / to: Point subscribed (?)
To / A: Hook Head ( Vietnamese )
/ : strikethrough ( Northern Straits Salish )

ligation in e

There is also a ligature with the letter A with the letter E: / giving the digraph "" as in " curriculum vitae "and" tied ". It is used in French , Danish , Faroese , Icelandic and Norwegian.

Variants

The graph of A has resulted in several variations:

: a tiny back, used by the International Phonetic Alphabet
: a cursive, used by the NUFI and the International Phonetic Alphabet
: Unlike the previous used by the International Phonetic Alphabet

Coding

Computer

Encoding	Case	Decimal	Hexadecimal	Octal	Binary
ASCII ISO 8859-1 Unicode	Uppercase	65	0041	000101	00000000 01000001
ASCII ISO 8859-1 Unicode	Tiny	97	0061	000141	00000000 01100001
EBCDIC	Uppercase	193	00C1	000301	00000000 11000001
EBCDIC	Tiny	129	0081	000201	00000000 10000001

Code table of the different variations of the letter A
Character	Code	Unicode Block	Unicode name
A	`U +0041`	Basic Latin	Latin capital letter A
has	`U 0061`	Basic Latin	Latin small letter A
At	`U +00 C0`	Latin-1 Supplement	Latin capital letter A grave accent
to	`U +00 E0`	Latin-1 Supplement	Latin small letter A grave accent
	`U +00 C1`	Latin-1 Supplement	Latin capital letter A acute accent
	`U +00 E1`	Latin-1 Supplement	A Latin small letter acute accent
	`U +00 C2`	Latin-1 Supplement	Latin capital letter A circumflex
	`U +00 E2`	Latin-1 Supplement	Latin small letter A circumflex
	`U +00 C3`	Latin-1 Supplement	Latin capital letter A tilde
	`U +00 E3`	Latin-1 Supplement	Latin small letter A tilde
	`U +00 C4`	Latin-1 Supplement	Latin capital letter A with diaeresis
	`U +00 E4`	Latin-1 Supplement	Latin small letter A with diaeresis
	`U +00 C5`	Latin-1 Supplement	Latin capital letter A Round Head
	`U +00 E5`	Latin-1 Supplement	Latin small letter A Round Head
TO	`U 0100`	Latin Extended - A	Latin capital letter A macron
to	`U 0101`	Latin Extended - A	Latin small letter A macron
	`U 0102`	Latin Extended - A	Latin capital letter A brief
	`U 0103`	Latin Extended - A	Latin small letter A brief
	`U 0104`	Latin Extended - A	Latin capital letter A ogonek
	`U 0105`	Latin Extended - A	Latin small letter A ogonek
	`U +01 CD`	Latin Extended - B	Latin capital letter A with caron
	`U +01 EC`	Latin Extended - B	Latin small letter A with caron
	`U +01 DE`	Latin Extended - B	Latin capital letter A with diaeresis and macron
	`U +01 DF`	Latin Extended - B	Latin small letter A with diaeresis and macron
	`U +01 E0`	Latin Extended - B	Latin capital letter A with dot above and macron
	`U +01 E1`	Latin Extended - B	Latin small letter A with dot above and macron
	`U +01 FA`	Latin Extended - B	Latin capital letter A round head and acute accent
	`U +01 FB`	Latin Extended - B	Latin small letter A round head and acute accent
	`U 0200`	Latin Extended - B	Latin capital letter A double grave accent
	`U 0201`	Latin Extended - B	Latin small letter A double grave accent
	`U 0202`	Latin Extended - B	Latin capital letter A short reversed
	`U 0203`	Latin Extended - B	A brief Latin small letter reversed
	`U 0226`	Latin Extended - B	Latin capital letter A with dot
	`U 0227`	Latin Extended - B	Latin small letter A with dot
	`U 023 A`	Latin Extended - B	Latin capital letter A with stroke
To	`U +1 E00`	Latin Extended Additional	Latin capital letter A round subscribed
to	`U +1 E01`	Latin Extended Additional	Latin small letter A round subscribed
To	`U +1 EA0`	Latin Extended Additional	Latin capital letter A point endorsed
to	`U +1 EA1`	Latin Extended Additional	Latin small letter A point endorsed
To	`U +1 EA2`	Latin Extended Additional	Latin capital letter A hook Chief
to	`U +1 EA3`	Latin Extended Additional	Latin small letter A hook Chief
To	`U +1 EA4`	Latin Extended Additional	Latin capital letter A circumflex and acute accent
	`U +1 EA5`	Latin Extended Additional	Latin small letter A circumflex and acute accent
To	`U +1 EA6`	Latin Extended Additional	Latin capital letter A circumflex accent and grave accent
to	`U +1 EA7`	Latin Extended Additional	Latin small letter A circumflex accent and grave accent
To	`U +1 EA8`	Latin Extended Additional	Latin capital letter A circumflex hook and Chief
to	`U +1 EA9`	Latin Extended Additional	Latin small letter A circumflex hook and Chief
To	`U +1 EAA`	Latin Extended Additional	Latin capital letter A circumflex and tilde
to	`U +1 EAB`	Latin Extended Additional	Latin small letter A circumflex and tilde
To	`U +1 EAC`	Latin Extended Additional	Latin capital letter A circumflex accent and point subscribed
to	`U +1 EAD`	Latin Extended Additional	Latin small letter A circumflex accent and point subscribed
To	`U +1 EAE`	Latin Extended Additional	Latin capital letter A brief and acute accent
to	`U +1 FAE`	Latin Extended Additional	Latin small letter A brief and acute accent
To	`U +1 IB0`	Latin Extended Additional	Latin capital letter A grave accent and short
to	`U +1 EB1`	Latin Extended Additional	Latin small letter A brief grave accent
To	`U +1 EB2`	Latin Extended Additional	Latin capital letter A short hook and Chief
to	`U +1 EB3`	Latin Extended Additional	Latin small letter A short hook and Chief
To	`U +1 EB4`	Latin Extended Additional	Latin capital letter A tilde brief
to	`U +1 EB5`	Latin Extended Additional	Latin small letter A brief tilde
To	`U +1 EB6`	Latin Extended Additional	Latin capital letter A brief point subscribed
to	`U +1 EB7`	Latin Extended Additional	Latin small letter A brief point subscribed
A	`U + FF21`	Latin Extended Additional	Latin capital letter A full-width
has	`U + FF41`	Latin Extended Additional	Latin small letter A full-width

Radio

Audio file
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Spelling:
- alphabet Radio International: Alpha
- French radio alphabet : Anatole
- German radio alphabet : Anton
- Radio English alphabet : Andrew
In Morse code , the letter A is coded " - "

Other

Signaling		Sign language		Writing Braille
Flag	Semaphore	French	Quebec	Writing Braille

Art and literature

Poetry

The vowel A is associated with the color black by Rimbaud in his famous sonnet

"A black, E white, I red, U green, O blue: vowels,

I will say one day your mysterious origins:

A, black velvety jacket of brilliant flies

Which buzz around cruel smells,

Gulfs of shadow Comics

In the work of designer Fred , the second A of the inscription "A TLANTIC OCEAN" is an island belonging to the "literary world", where lives the well driller Bartholomew; visit the island hero Philemon.

Bibliography

Larissa Bonfante and others, The Birth of records - From cuneiform to the alphabet, translated by Christiane Zivie-Coche, Editions du Seuil , 1994
Anne Zali and Annie Berthier (direction), The Adventure of Writing - Birth, Bibliothque nationale de France , 1997
Marc-Alain Ouaknine, The Mysteries of the alphabet, Editions Assouline, 1997

Latin alphabet
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
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With diacritical	superscript: N hook or crook: ( ) H ( ) registered: DJ ( ) pm T Z
Digraphs	C. Dx Gb Kp LI Mb Mp Nd Ng Nh Nk Ns Nt Ny Nz Or Sh Th
Trigrams	C'h Ngb NKP Sch Tsh
Obsolete letters	s

Variants of the letter A
Superscript diacritic	(acute accent) (caret) AT (grave accent) (short) (short inverted) to (hook Chief) (double grave accent) (hatchek) TO ( macron) (item suscrit) (round head) (tilde) (umlaut)
Diacritical registered	(bar included)
Diacritical subscribed	To (DOT) to (round subscribed) (retroflex hook) (ogonek)
Combinations of diacritical	At (circumflex and acute accent) at (circumflex accent and grave accent) at (circumflex and hook Chief) to (caret point and subscribed) at (circumflex accent and tilde) to (brief and focus acute) to (brief and grave accent) to (short hook and Chief) to (short and point subscribed) to (brief and tilde) (item suscrit and macron) (round head and focus acute) (umlaut and macron)
Ligatures	(e in a) (an acute accent in a) (e in a macron)
Additional letters	(tumbled) (alpha latin)

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