mehki znak
mehki znak, mali jer
The Cyrillic letter Ь/ь, which in Old Church Slavonic represented a short (or "reduced") front vowel, and in modern languages serves to denote a soft (palatalized) consonant. [Črka cirilice Ь/ь, ki je v Stari cerkveni slovanščini predstavljala kratek (ali 'znižan') prednji samoglasnik, v sodobnih jezikih pa označuje mehko (palatalizirano) soglasje.]