soft signs

A form of soft sign — 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.

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Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of soft sign
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