hard sign

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

The Cyrillic letter Ъ/ъ, which in modern languages serves to denote a hard (non-palatalized) consonant.

hard sign hard signs

Calque of Russian твёрдый знак (tvjórdyj znak).

yer back yer

soft sign

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