拉丁文小写字母 A a

Latin Small Letter A a. Such lowercase Latin letters appeared in the Middle Ages from the so-called 「minuscule script」, which was used to save expensive parchment.

In Cyrillic script, people used to save up space between letters in a different way. They would write letters above other letters and pick cheaper materials (such as birch bark). That's why letters in minuscule were not widely spread. As for people from other cultures, it's necessary to mention that Bulgarians and Serbs borrowed some typographic traditions from the West, and their script is closer to the Latin script.

符号 「拉丁文小写字母 A」 包含在 「基本拉丁字母」 块的 「小寫拉丁字母」 子块中，并在1993年作为Unicode版本1.1的一部分获得批准。