Editing Soft sign (section)

== Representations ==
Under normal orthographic rules, it has no uppercase form, as no word begins with the letter. However, Cyrillic type fonts normally provide an uppercase form for setting type in [[all caps]] or for using it as an element of various serial numbers (like series of Soviet banknotes) and indices (for example, there was once a model of old Russian [[steam locomotive]]s [https://web.archive.org/web/20111005173005/http://www.railroads.narod.ru/photo/165.jpg marked "Ь"]&nbsp;– [[:ru:Паровоз Ь]]).

In the [[romanization of Cyrillic]], the soft sign is typically transliterated with {{unichar|02B9|[[MODIFIER LETTER PRIME]]}}. Sometimes {{unichar|02BC|[[MODIFIER LETTER APOSTROPHE]]}} 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 River|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 {{angbr|ź}}, ць {{angbr|ć}}, нь {{angbr|ń}}, ль {{angbr|ĺ}}.