Combining Latin Small Letter U

It follows its host letter, with no separate text position.

The superscript-letter set appears mainly in medieval Germanic manuscripts, with some use in certain languages into the 19th century.

Medieval abbreviations saved scribes time and writing material: a raised letter could stand for omitted letters above the line. A Middle English superscript u abbreviation appears in Piers Plowman, a poem written in an older form of English: þ, the letter thorn, followed by ͧ is read as “thou,” an older English form of “you”; the same passage reads inline “ou” as “you.”