What ꙷ means
It is a small U written above another Cyrillic letter. Historical scribes used superscript letters to save space and to mark shortened words. Read ꙷ together with the letter it sits over; it does not replace the ordinary Cyrillic у.
In Old East Slavonic manuscripts, ꙷ could be written separately from the old Cyrillic Uk letter, ꙋ. A 2010 encoding proposal cites examples in the 11th-century Putjatina Mineya, a church book, and in the 15th-century Radziwiłł and Hypatian chronicles. It also describes superscript letters used in abbreviations formed by leaving out a word ending or shortening a word within it.
Use ꙷ for historical Cyrillic text or its transcription, not as an everyday letter.
Replacing ordinary у with ꙷ changes the text.
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Questions people ask
1Why does ꙷ sometimes appear with a dotted circle?
The circle is a display aid for a combining mark shown without its base letter. It marks where a base could go; it is not part of ꙷ.
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ꙷ\A677Codes and encoding1 code points
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