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alphabet

A set of glyphs used to compose words in a given language. English uses A-Z with lower case variant a-z. Other languages include accented letters. Unicode supports many alphabets with nothing in common with the familiar letters, e.g. Cyrillic, Greek, Hindi, Chinese, Thai, or Ugaritic (cuneiform).

Radio Operator Alphabet	Cyrillic Alphabet
Greek Alphabet	Links

Radio Operator Alphabet

Radio Operators often have to speak over noisy lines. So instead of pronouncing individual letters with the traditional names (aye, bee, cee, dee, ee, eff) that sound too much alike, they use the following pronunciations for the letters:

Alpha	Hotel	Oscar	Victor
Bravo	India	Papa	Whiskey
Charlie	Juliet	Quebec	X-Ray
Delta	Kilo	Romeo	Yankee
Echo	Lima	Sierra	Zulu
Foxtrot	Mike	Tango
Golf	November	Uniform

Greek Alphabet

Greek Alphabet
Char		Name
Α	α	alpha
Β	β	beta
Γ	γ	gamma
Δ	δ	delta
Ε	ε	epsilon
Ζ	ζ	zeta
Η	η	eta
Θ	θ	theta
	ϑ	theta symbol
Ι	ι	iota
Κ	κ	kappa
Λ	λ	lambda
Μ	μ	mu
Ν	ν	nu
Ξ	ξ	xi
Ο	ο	omicron
Π	π	pi
	ϖ	pi symbol
Ρ	ρ	rho
Σ	σ	sigma
	ς	final sigma
Τ	τ	tau
Υ	υ	upsilon
Φ	φ	phi
Χ	χ	chi
Ψ	ψ	psi
Ω	ω	omega

Cyrillic Alphabet

Cyrillic Alphabet
Char		Name
а	А	A
б	Б	BE
в	В	VE
г	Г	GHE
д	Д	DE
е	Е	IE
ж	Ж	ZHE
з	З	ZE
и	И	I
й	Й	SHORT I
к	К	KA
л	Л	EL
м	М	EM
н	Н	EN
о	О	O
п	П	PE
р	Р	ER
с	С	ES
т	Т	TE
у	У	U
ф	Ф	EF
х	Х	HA
ц	Ц	TSE
ч	Ч	CHE
ш	Ш	SHA
щ	Щ	SHCHA
ъ	Ъ	HARD SIGN
ы	Ы	YERU
ь	Ь	SOFT SIGN
э	Э	E
ю	Ю	YU
я	Я	YA

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