 In standard Russian, however, the letters in and are always pronounced separately.Digraph-like letter pairs include combinations of consonants with the soft sign (Serbian/Macedonian letters and are derived from and ), and or for the uncommon and optional Russian phoneme .Native descriptions of Cyrillic writing system often use the term "digraph" to combinations and (Bulgarian, Ukrainian) as they both correspond to a single letter of Russian and Belarusian alphabets ( is used for , and for ).