ь

See also: ъ, ѣ, and Ь

Translingual


ь U+044C, ь
CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER SOFT SIGN
ы
[U+044B]
Cyrillic э
[U+044D]

Letter

ь (upper case Ь)

  1. A letter of the Cyrillic script, called soft sign.

Letter

ь (upper case Ь)

  1. A letter of the Old Cyrillic script, called front yer or yeri.

Abaza

Letter

ь (ʲ) (lower case, upper case Ь)

  1. The sixty-eighth letter of the Abaza alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

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Abkhaz

Letter

ь (ʲ) (lower case, upper case Ь)

  1. The sixty-third letter of the Abkhaz alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

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Adyghe

Letter

ь (ʲ) (lower case, upper case Ь)

  1. The sixty-first letter of the Adyghe alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

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Aghul

Letter

ь (ʲ) (lower case, upper case Ь)

  1. The fiftieth letter of the Aghul alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

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Alutor

Letter

ь (transliteration needed) (lower case, upper case Ь)

  1. The thirty-sixth letter of the Alutor alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

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Avar

Letter

ь (ʲ) (lower case, upper case Ь)

  1. The forty-third letter of the Avar alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

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Bashkir

Letter

ь () (lower case, upper case Ь)

  1. The thirty-eighth letter of the Bashkir alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

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Belarusian

Letter

ь (ʹ) (lower case, upper case Ь)

  1. The twenty-ninth letter of the Belarusian alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

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Bulgarian

Letter

ь (ʹ) (lower case, upper case Ь)

  1. The twenty-eighth letter of the Bulgarian alphabet, called ер малък (er malǎk), and written in the Cyrillic script.

Usage notes

  • This letter is only ever used following a consonant as the digraph ьо (e.g. in шофьор (šofjor)) to denote palatalization.

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Buryat

Letter

ь (ʹ) (lower case, upper case Ь)

  1. The thirty-third letter of the Buryat alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

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Chechen

Letter

ь (ʲ) (lower case, upper case Ь)

  1. The forty-third letter of the Chechen alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

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Chukchi

Letter

ь (transliteration needed) (lower case, upper case Ь)

  1. The thirty-third letter of the Chukchi alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

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Chuvash

Letter

ь (ʹ) (lower case, upper case Ь)

  1. The thirty-fourth letter of the Chuvash alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

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Crimean Tatar

Letter

ь (transliteration needed) (lower case, upper case Ь)

  1. The thirty-fourth letter of the Crimean Tatar alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

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Dargwa

Letter

ь () (lower case, upper case Ь)

  1. The forty-third letter of the Dargwa alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

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Dungan

Letter

ь (ь) (lower case, upper case Ь)

  1. The thirty-fifth letter of the Dungan alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

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Eastern Mari

Letter

ь (ʹ) (lower case, upper case Ь)

  1. The thirty-third letter of the Eastern Mari alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

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Even

Letter

ь () (lower case, upper case Ь)

  1. The thirty-third letter of the Even alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

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Evenki

Letter

ь () (lower case, upper case Ь)

  1. The thirty-first letter of the Evenki alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

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Ingush

Letter

ь (ʲ) (lower case, upper case Ь)

  1. The forty-first letter of the Ingush alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

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Itelmen

Letter

ь (transliteration needed) (lower case, upper case Ь)

  1. The forty-fourth letter of the Itelmen alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

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Kabardian

Letter

ь (ʲ) (lower case, upper case Ь)

  1. The fifty-fifth letter of the Kabardian alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

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Kalmyk

Letter

ь (ĭ) (lower case, upper case Ь)

  1. The thirty-sixth letter of the Kalmyk alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

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Kazakh

Cyrillic ь ()
Arabic n/a (n/a)
Latin n/a

Letter

ь () (lower case, upper case Ь)

  1. The thirty-ninth letter of the Kazakh alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

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Khakas

Letter

ь () (lower case, upper case Ь)

  1. The thirty-sixth letter of the Khakas alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

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Kumyk

Letter

ь (ʹ) (lower case, upper case Ь)

  1. The thirty-sixth letter of the Kumyk alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

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Kyrgyz

Letter

ь (ʹ) (lower case, upper case Ь)

  1. The thirty-third letter of the Kyrgyz alphabet, called ичкертүү белгиси (içkertüü belgisi), and written in the Cyrillic script.

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Lezgi

Letter

ь () (lower case, upper case Ь)

  1. The forty-second letter of the Lezgi alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

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Mansi

Letter

ь (ʹ) (lower case, upper case Ь)

  1. The thirty-eighth letter of the Mansi alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

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Mongolian

Pronunciation

Letter

ь (ʹ) (lower case, upper case Ь)

  1. The thirty-second letter of the Mongolian alphabet, called зөөлний тэмдэг (zöölnii temdeg), and written in the Cyrillic script.

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Nivkh

Letter

ь (j) (lower case, upper case Ь)

  1. The forty-third letter of the Nivkh alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

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Ossetian

Letter

ь (ʹ) (lower case, upper case Ь)

  1. The fortieth letter of the Ossetian alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

Usage notes

Only used in Russian borrowings.

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Romanian

Letter

ь (lower case, upper case Ь)

  1. The twenty-eighth letter of the Moldovan alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

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Russian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ʲ]

Letter

ь (ʹ) (lower case, upper case Ь)

  1. The thirtieth letter of the Russian alphabet, called мягкий знак (mjaxkij znak), and written in the Cyrillic script.

Usage notes

  • The soft sign has no sound of its own, but modifies that of the preceding consonant by causing it to be pronounced palatalized (i.e. soft).
  • Less commonly, it just has a traditional orthographic usage with no phonetic meaning. For example, nouns ending in ч, ш, ж and щ are pronounced identically to their counterparts ending in чь, шь, жь and щь, but they have different grammatical genders and declensions.
  • It also has the function of a separation sign: vowels after the soft sign are pronounced separately from the previous consonant and are iotated. Compare льют (lʹjut) [lʲjut] and лют (ljut) [lʲut].

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Southern Altai

Letter

ь (ʹ) (lower case, upper case Ь)

  1. The thirty-fourth letter of the Southern Altai alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

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Tabasaran

Letter

ь (ʼ) (lower case, upper case Ь)

  1. The forty-third letter of the Tabasaran alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

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Tatar

Letter

ь () (lower case, upper case Ь)

  1. The thirty-sixth letter of the Tatar alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

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Tundra Nenets

Letter

ь (transliteration needed) (lower case, upper case Ь)

  1. The thirty-first letter of the Tundra Nenets alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

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Tuvan

Letter

ь (ʹ) (lower case, upper case Ь)

  1. The thirty-third letter of the Tuvan alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

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Udmurt

Letter

ь (ʹ) (lower case, upper case Ь)

  1. The thirty-fifth letter of the Udmurt alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

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Ukrainian

Letter

ь (ʹ) (lower case, upper case Ь)

  1. The thirty-first letter of the Ukrainian alphabet, called м’який знак (mʺjakyj znak), and written in the Cyrillic script.

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Uzbek

Letter

ь (ь) (lower case, upper case Ь)

  1. The twenty-eighth letter of the Uzbek alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

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Western Mari

Letter

ь (ʹ) (lower case, upper case Ь)

  1. The thirty-fourth letter of the Western Mari alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

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Yakut

Letter

ь () (lower case, upper case Ь)

  1. The thirty-seventh letter of the Yakut alphabet, called сымнатар бэлиэ (sımnatar belie), and written in the Cyrillic script.

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