In English, the name of the letter is the long A sound, pronounced /ˈeɪ/. Its name in most other languages matches the letter's pronunciation in open syllables. Se mere

The earliest known ancestor of "A" is aleph—the first letter of the Phoenician alphabet, also written 'aleph —where it represented a glottal stop [ʔ], as Phoenician only used Se mere

• When using base-16 notation, ⟨A⟩ is conventionally used as the numeral corresponding to the number 10 in decimal. Se mere

Related characters in the Latin alphabet
• ⟨Æ æ⟩: a ligature of ⟨AE⟩ originally used in Latin
• ⟨A⟩ with diacritics: Å å Ǻ ǻ Ḁ ḁ ẚ Ă ă Ặ ặ Ắ ắ Ằ ằ Se mere

English
In modern English orthography, the letter ⟨a⟩ represents at least seven different vowel sounds, here represented using the vowels of Received Pronunciation, with effects of ⟨r⟩ ignored and mergers in General American Se mere

• History of the Alphabet
• Texts on Wikisource: Se mere