What is the meaning of ?

The hiragana syllable (a). Its equivalent in katakana is (a). It is the first syllable in the gojūon order; its position is (a-gyō a-dan, row a, section a).

expresses surprise: Ah! Oh!

used to get someone's attention

used as a response to someone's call

first-person personal pronoun: I, me

distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that, yon

foot

ridge between rice fields; ridge between groves

to be, to exist

Source: wiktionary.org