soft sign

== English == === Etymology === Calque of Russian мя́гкий знак (mjáxkij znak), from мя́гкий (mjáxkij, “palatal, palatized, soft”) + знак (znak, “mark, sign”). === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌsɒftˈsaɪn/ (General American) IPA(key): /ˌsɔftˈsaɪn/ Rhymes: -aɪn === Noun === soft sign (plural soft signs) 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. Synonyms: front jer, front yer Antonym: hard sign ==== Hypernyms ==== jer, yer ==== Translations ==== === References === === Further reading === soft sign on Wikipedia.Wikipedia