あ

あ - character of the Japanese writing system. Article “あ” in Japanese Wikipedia has 23.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 10 references and 10 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.24 points.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in Japanese version.

In June 2025 the article “あ” was edited by 2 authors in Japanese Wikipedia and written by 2 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “あ”, its content was written by 171 registered users of Japanese Wikipedia (8236^th place) and edited by 639 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 236 times in Japanese Wikipedia and cited 1744 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Japanese): #118 in June 2022
• Global: #11572 in November 2011

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Japanese): #110 in March 2016
• Global: #6695 in May 2016

There are 30 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) A (kana)		51.864
2	Catalan (ca) A (kana)		32.4622
3	Korean (ko) あ		28.6083
4	Malay (ms) A (kana)		28.2901
5	Romanian (ro) A (kana)		28.1061
6	Thai (th) อะ		24.454
7	Azerbaijani (az) A (kana)		24.0635
8	Japanese (ja) あ		23.5202
9	Vietnamese (vi) あ		22.8875
10	Turkish (tr) A (kana)		21.4597

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "あ" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Japanese (ja) あ		10 343 160
2	English (en) A (kana)		759 910
3	Chinese (zh) あ		157 149
4	Spanish (es) あ		78 505
5	German (de) A (Kana)		47 332
6	Russian (ru) А (кана)		45 958
7	Korean (ko) あ		45 854
8	Portuguese (pt) A (kana)		41 822
9	Indonesian (id) A (kana)		41 755
10	Italian (it) A (kana)		40 324

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "あ" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Japanese (ja) あ		20 660
2	English (en) A (kana)		4 610
3	Chinese (zh) あ		1 117
4	Spanish (es) あ		380
5	Thai (th) อะ		285
6	Russian (ru) А (кана)		225
7	German (de) A (Kana)		171
8	French (fr) あ		167
9	Portuguese (pt) A (kana)		144
10	Korean (ko) あ		129

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "あ" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Japanese (ja) あ		171
2	English (en) A (kana)		90
3	German (de) A (Kana)		56
4	French (fr) あ		35
5	Italian (it) A (kana)		34
6	Russian (ru) А (кана)		25
7	Spanish (es) あ		24
8	Polish (pl) A (kana)		24
9	Chinese (zh) あ		21
10	Korean (ko) あ		20

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "あ" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Japanese (ja) あ		2
2	Arabic (ar) أ (كانا)		0
3	Azerbaijani (az) A (kana)		0
4	Catalan (ca) A (kana)		0
5	German (de) A (Kana)		0
6	English (en) A (kana)		0
7	Esperanto (eo) A (kanao)		0
8	Spanish (es) あ		0
9	Estonian (et) A (kana)		0
10	Basque (eu) A (kana)		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "あ" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Japanese (ja) あ		236
2	English (en) A (kana)		133
3	Catalan (ca) A (kana)		117
4	Chinese (zh) あ		107
5	Korean (ko) あ		98
6	Spanish (es) あ		75
7	Russian (ru) А (кана)		74
8	Ukrainian (uk) あ		71
9	Indonesian (id) A (kana)		64
10	French (fr) あ		63

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic أ (كانا)
az	Azerbaijani A (kana)
ca	Catalan A (kana)
de	German A (Kana)
en	English A (kana)
eo	Esperanto A (kanao)
es	Spanish あ
et	Estonian A (kana)
eu	Basque A (kana)
fi	Finnish A (kana)
fr	French あ
hu	Hungarian A (kana)
hy	Armenian あ(ա)
id	Indonesian A (kana)
it	Italian A (kana)
ja	Japanese あ
ko	Korean あ
ms	Malay A (kana)
nl	Dutch A (kana)
no	Norwegian A (kana)
pl	Polish A (kana)
pt	Portuguese A (kana)
ro	Romanian A (kana)
ru	Russian А (кана)
th	Thai อะ
tr	Turkish A (kana)
uk	Ukrainian あ
vi	Vietnamese あ
zh	Chinese あ
zhminnan	Min Nan あ

Best Rank

Japanese: #110 03.2016

Global: #6695 05.2016

Best Rank

Japanese: #118 06.2022

Global: #11572 11.2011

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