A (А, а) is the first letter of the Cyrillic alphabet.

It arose directly from the Greek letter alpha. In the Early Cyrillic Alphabet its name was azǔ and it had a numerical value of one.

In many languages that use Cyrillic, such as Russian, Serbian, Macedonian and Bulgarian, it is pronounced as . It may also represent and in languages such as Ingush and Chechen.

Through history, it has had various shapes, but today is standardised on one that looks exactly like the Latin a (including the italicized form).

Code positions

Its HTML entities are: А or А for capital and а or а for small letter.

See also

• A
• Alpha

Vowel letters

А | A (Kyrillisch) | A (Ziriliko) | A (cyrillique) | A (Cirílico) | А | А (Cirillico) | А | А | А | A (Cirílico) | А (кириллица) | А (ћириличко) | А | А | Аз | А