soft sign

名词 n.
/ˌsɒftˈsaɪn/    /ˌsɔftˈsaɪn/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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.

词形变化

soft signs plural

词源

Calque of Russian мя́гкий знак (mjáxkij znak), from мя́гкий (mjáxkij, “palatal, palatized, soft”) + знак (znak, “mark, sign”).
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