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The spiritus lenis ("soft breathing") or psili pneumata (Greek: psilí, ψιλή) is the mark of the absence of initial aspiration in ancient Greek. Some think it signifies the glottal stop some languages use to avoid initial vowel sounds. It is written as a closing half moon on top of or to the left of an initial vowel:

The psili pneumata was also used in the early Cyrillic alphabet when writing the Old Church Slavonic language. In this context it is encoded as Unicode U+04806 or HTML entity ҆ (◌҆).

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Diacritics Cyrillic alphabet

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Spiritus asperThe spiritus asper ("rough breathing") or dasia pneumata (Greek: daseia, is the mark of an initial aspiration in ancient Greek. It is written as an opening half moon on top of or to the left of an initial vowel and rho: - - - -; - - - -. The only situatioSpiritus lenisThe spiritus lenis ("soft breathing") or psili pneumata (Greek: psili, is the mark of the absence of initial aspiration in ancient Greek. Some think it signifies the glottal stop some languages use to avoid initial vowel sounds. It is written as a closing 
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