Some of the precomposed unicode characters follow here. The latin letter A can take a lot of diacritics and combine with many letters to make ligatures. In this case, it is very important to distinguish it from the single-storey Latin Small Letter Alpha, U+0251 (ɑ), which is also used in the IPA, but for a different vowel sound.ĭiacritics, ligatures and derivations The double-storey lower case a is also used in the International Phonetic Alphabet to denote an open front unrounded vowel.

The letter A is used by virtually all languages that use the latin alphabet. For accented letters, search under Latin categories or type breve in the search box to filter the relevant results. You can enter almost any special character using this tool. Italic versions of serif and humanist sans serif typefaces normally have a single-storey a, making it identical to Latin Small Letter Alpha, U+0251 (ɑ) and - depending on the font - identical or similar to Greek Small Letter Alpha, U+03B1 (α). Press Control + Command + Spacebar keyboard shortcut keys to open Character Viewer tool which will look like below. The double-storey a is commonly seen in roman and grotesk typefaces. This is also the case with Cyrillic Small Letter A, U+0430 (а). The lower case letter has two main variants: double-storey, and single-storey. In some stylized versions it may look like Greek Capital Letter Lamda, U+039B (Λ) and Latin Capital Letter Turned V, U+0245 (Ʌ). The upper case letter is identical to the related Greek Capital Letter Alpha, U+0391 (Α) and Cyrillic Capital Letter A, U+0410 (А), as well as Cherokee Letter Go, U+13AA (Ꭺ).

A is the first letter of the latin alphabet, and is encoded in unicode as Latin Capital Letter A, U+0041 (A) and Latin Small Letter A, U+0061 (a).

Latin small letter open e with tilde