soft sign

English

Etymology

Calque of Russian мя́гкий знак (mjáxkij znak).

Noun

soft sign (plural soft signs)

  1. The Cyrillic letter Ь/ь, which in modern languages serves to denote a soft (palatalized) consonant.

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