soft sign

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

The Cyrillic letter Ь/ь (transliterated in English with an apostrophe (’) or prime (′)), which in modern languages using the Cyrillic alphabet serves to denote a soft (palatized) consonant.

/ˌsɒftˈsaɪn/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-soft sign.wav /ˌsɔftˈsaɪn/

soft sign soft signs

Calque of Russian мя́гкий знак (mjáxkij znak), from мя́гкий (mjáxkij, “palatal, palatized, soft”) + знак (znak, “mark, sign”).

front jer front yer

hard sign

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