A (kana)
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安 | 阿 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Kunrei : | a | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hepburn : | a | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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あ in hiragana or ア in katakana ( romanized a ) is one of the Japanese kana that represents a mora . あ is based on the sōsho style of the Kanji安, ア is derived from the radical of the Kanji 阿. In modern Japanese alphabetical sorting , it comes first, before the い. It is also the 36th letter in the Iroha , immediately after the て and before the さ. The Hiragana includes the Kana no in combination with a cross. The Unicode for あ is U + 3041 and for ア is U + 30A2. The symbols represent the [a] .
shape | Rōmaji | Hiragana | Katakana |
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Normal a / i / u / e / o (あ 行a-gyō ) |
a | あ | ア |
aa , ah ā |
あ あ, あ ぁ あ ー |
ア ア, ア ァ ア ー |
Derivation
The katakana ア derives from the kanji 阿 via man'yōgana . The Hiragana あ is derived from the Kanji 安 .
variants
The scaled down versions of the kana (ぁ, ァ) are used to represent foreign phones in the Japanese language , for example フ ァ (fa).
Stroke order
The hiragana あ is drawn with three lines :
- Above a horizontal line from left to right.
- A vertical line from the top in the middle of the first line down.
- At the bottom a loop like the hiragana の .
The katakana ア is drawn with two lines:
- Above, a line from a horizontal line from left to right, continued by a shorter diagonal line in the opposite direction.
- Beginning at the end of the last line, a line down, curved slightly to the left.
Other forms of representation
- In Japanese Braille :
- The Wabun code is -- ・ --.
- In the Japanese spelling table it is spelled as "朝日 の ア" (Asahi no A).