various serial numbers (like series of Soviet banknotes) and indices (for example, there was once a model of old Russian steam locomotives marked "Ь" – :ru:Паровоз Ь). In the romanization of Cyrillic, the soft sign is typically transliterated with . Sometimes is used, or the soft sign may be ignored if it is in a position that it does not denote iotation, for example: Тверь=Tver, Обь=Ob. It can also be transcribed "y" or "i" if preceding a vowel. In Belarusian it is romanized as a combining acute, e.g., зь , ць , нь , ль . Name of letter , , , the hard sign being named , with unknown meaning Kazakh: жіңішкелік белгісі, lit. 'sign of softness', Kazakh pronunciation: [ʒɘŋɘʃkʲelɘk.bʲelɡɘsɘ] , or (archaic, mostly pre-1917 name) , or simply , the hard sign being named or , Related letters and other similar characters Latin letter B, which lowercase letter is nearly identical Ъ ъ : Cyrillic letter Hard sign Ҍ ҍ : Cyrillic letter Semisoft sign Ѣ ѣ : Cyrillic letter Yat Ы ы : Cyrillic letter Yery Љ љ : Cyrillic letter Lje Њ њ : Cyrillic letter Nje ' : Apostrophe , : I with bowl Й and Ј, Cyrillic letters Computing codes References