A (kana)

Hiragana	Katakana
Stroke order
Unicode
U + 3042	U + 30A2
origin
安	阿
Transliteration
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
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

Stroke sequence for あ

Stroke sequence for ア

The hiragana あ is drawn with three lines :

1. Above a horizontal line from left to right.
2. A vertical line from the top in the middle of the first line down.
3. At the bottom a loop like the hiragana の .

The katakana ア is drawn with two lines:

1. Above, a line from a horizontal line from left to right, continued by a shorter diagonal line in the opposite direction.
2. 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).

Web links

Wiktionary: あ  - Explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations