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Letter of the Cyrillic script Hard signЪ ъᲆUsageWriting systemCyrillicTypeAlphabeticLanguage of originOld Church SlavonicSound values[ɤ̞], [ə], [ɐ], [ʔ]In UnicodeU+042A, U+044A, U+1C86HistoryDevelopmentⰟ ⱏЪ ъTransliterationsǎ, ă, ą, ë, ę, ų, ŭ, a, u, yVariationsᲆThis article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For the distinction between [ ], / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. Hard sign, from Alexandre Benois' 1904 Russian alphabet book. It shows dub" (oak), v"ězd" (entry) and syr" (cheese). The letter Ъ ъ (italics Ъ, ъ) of the Cyrillic script is known as the hard sign (Russian: твёрдый знак, romanized: tvërdyj znak, pronounced [ˈtvʲɵrdɨj ˈznak], Rusyn: твердый знак, romanized: tverdyj znak) in the modern Russian and some varieties of Rusyn alphabet (in Rusyn, ъ could also be known as ір, ir), as yer in Old Church Slavonic (Church Slavonic: ѥръ, romanized: jerъ), as er golyam (ер голям, "big er") in the Bulgarian alphabet, as debelo jer (дебело їер, "thick yer") in pre-refor