History
The earliest certain ancestor of "A" is aleph (also written 'aleph), the first letter of theTypographic variants
During Roman times, there were many variant forms of the letter "A". First was the monumental or lapidary style, which was used when inscribing on stone or other "permanent" media. There was also a cursive style used for everyday or utilitarian writing, which was done on more perishable surfaces. Due to the "perishable" nature of these surfaces, there are not as many examples of this style as there are of the monumental, but there are still many surviving examples of different types of cursive, such as majuscule cursive,Use in writing systems
English
In modernOther languages
In most languages that use the Latin alphabet, denotes an open unrounded vowel, such as , , or . An exception is Saanich, in which (and the glyph Á) stands for aOther systems
In phonetic and phonemic notation: *in theOther uses
InRelated characters
Descendants and related characters in the Latin alphabet
*Æ æ : Latin ''AE'' ligature *A withDerived signs, symbols and abbreviations
*ª : an ordinal indicator *Å : Ångström sign *∀ : a turned capital letter A, used in predicate logic to specify universal quantification ("for all") *@ : At sign *₳ : Argentine austral *Ⓐ : Anarchist symbolism#circle-a, anarchy symbolAncestors and siblings in other alphabets
*𐤀 : Phoenician alphabet, Semitic letter Aleph, from which the following symbols originally derive **Α α : Greek alphabet, Greek letter Alpha, from which the following letters derive ***А а : Cyrillic letter A (Cyrillic), A *** : Coptic alphabet, Coptic letter Alpha ***𐌀 : Old Italic script, Old Italic A, which is the ancestor of modern Latin A **** : Runes, Runic letter Ansuz (rune), ansuz, which probably derives from old Italic A *** : Gothic alphabet, Gothic letter aza/asks *Ա ա : Armenian alphabet, Armenian letter Ayb (letter), AybCode points
These are the code points for the forms of the letter in various systems : 1Other 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
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