The soft sign (Ь, ь) is a symbol in the Cyrillic alphabet. It indicates softening, or palatalization, of the preceding consonant. The soft sign is not strictly considered a letter, but a modifier symbol. No words start with it, and under normal orthographic rules it has no uppercase form. However, Cyrillic type fonts do normally provide an uppercase form for setting type in all caps.

Russian: мягкий знак , Ukrainian: м’який знак , Belarusian: мяккі знак . The Old Slavonic name is yeri (Ерь).

See also: yer, hard sign, iotation''

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