A with circumflex (Cyrillic)

For the Latin letter A with circumflex, see Â.

A with circumflex (А̂ а̂; italics: А̂ а̂) is a Cyrillic letter, In all its forms it looks exactly like the Latin letter A with circumflex ( â Â â), used in the Udege alphabet which was created for the Udege language.^[1] The letter was made and used in the most common version of the alphabet: the Khabarovsk version.^[2][3]

A with circumflex
Usage
Writing system	Cyrillic
Type	Alphabetic

Usage

Nineteenth century polymath Mykhailo Maksymovych used an orthography for the Ukrainian language based on etymological principles of spelling, which included the letter А̂ .^[4]

This letter is also used in some dialects of South Slavic languages such as Bulgarian and Serbian (e.g. гла̂ва or кра̂к).^[5]

Computing codes

Being a relatively recent letter, not present in any legacy 8-bit Cyrillic encoding, the letter А̂ is not represented directly by a precomposed character in Unicode either; it has to be composed as А+◌̂ (U+0302).^{[citation needed]}

Character information

Preview	А		а		̂
Unicode name	CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER A		CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER A		COMBINING CIRCUMFLEX ACCENT
Encodings	decimal	hex	dec	hex	dec	hex
Unicode	1040	U+0410	1072	U+0430	770	U+0302
UTF-8	208 144	D0 90	208 176	D0 B0	204 130	CC 82
Numeric character reference	А	А	а	а	̂	̂
Named character reference	А		а

Related letters and other similar characters

• Â â : Latin letter A with circumflex - a Romanian and Vietnamese letter
• А а : Cyrillic letter A
• А̀ а̀ : Cyrillic letter A with grave
• Ӓ ӓ : Cyrillic letter A with diaeresis
• Ӑ ӑ : Cyrillic letter A with breve
• Cyrillic characters in Unicode