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- Russian · calque ofтвёрдый знак
- English todayhard sign
Calque of Russian твёрдый знак (tvjórdyj znak).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
hard sign
Today it means: The Cyrillic letter Ъ/ъ, which in modern languages serves to denote a hard (non-palatalized) consonant. Full definition →
Russian твёрдый знак