Source: Noto Sans Hebrew

U+059E HEBREW ACCENT GERSHAYIM

U+059E was added to Unicode in version 2.0 (1996). It belongs to the block U+0590 to U+05FF Hebrew in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Nonspacing Mark and is mainly used in the Hebrew script.

The glyph is not a composition. It has a Neutral East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Nonspacing Mark and is not mirrored. In text U+059E behaves as Combining Mark regarding line breaks. It has type Extend for sentence and Extend for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Extend.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

Gershayim (Hebrew: גֵּרְשַׁ֞יִם, with variant English spellings) is a cantillation mark that is found in the Torah, Haftarah, and other books of the Hebrew Bible.
The Hebrew word גֵּרְשַׁ֞יִם‎ translates into English as double geresh.

Representations

System	Representation
Nº	1438
UTF-8	D6 9E
UTF-16	05 9E
UTF-32	00 00 05 9E
URL-Quoted	%D6%9E
HTML-Escape	֞
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake	âÖ
Adobe Glyph List	gershayimaccenthebrew

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property	Value
Age	2.0 (1996)
Unicode Name	HEBREW ACCENT GERSHAYIM
Unicode 1 Name	—
Block	Hebrew
General Category	Nonspacing Mark
Script	Hebrew
Bidirectional Category	Nonspacing Mark
Combining Class	Above
Decomposition Type	None
Decomposition Mapping	Hebrew Accent Gershayim
Lowercase	✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping	Hebrew Accent Gershayim
Lowercase Mapping	Hebrew Accent Gershayim
Uppercase	✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping	Hebrew Accent Gershayim
Uppercase Mapping	Hebrew Accent Gershayim
Simple Titlecase Mapping	Hebrew Accent Gershayim
Titlecase Mapping	Hebrew Accent Gershayim
Case Folding	Hebrew Accent Gershayim
ASCII Hex Digit	✘
Alphabetic	✘
Bidi Control	✘
Bidi Mirrored	✘
Composition Exclusion	✘
Case Ignorable	✔
Changes When Casefolded	✘
Changes When Casemapped	✘
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	✘
Changes When Lowercased	✘
Changes When Titlecased	✘
Changes When Uppercased	✘
Cased	✘
Full Composition Exclusion	✘
Default Ignorable Code Point	✘
Dash	✘
Deprecated	✘
Diacritic	✔
Emoji Modifier Base	✘
Emoji Component	✘
Emoji Modifier	✘
Emoji Presentation	✘
Emoji	✘
Extender	✘
Extended Pictographic	✘
FC NFKC Closure	Hebrew Accent Gershayim
Grapheme Cluster Break	Extend
Grapheme Base	✘
Grapheme Extend	✔
Grapheme Link	✘
Hex Digit	✘
Hyphen	✘
ID Continue	✔
ID Start	✘
IDS Binary Operator	✘
IDS Trinary Operator and	✘
Ideographic	✘
Indic Mantra Category	—
Indic Positional Category	NA
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
Jamo Short Name	—
Join Control	✘
Logical Order Exception	✘
Math	✘
Noncharacter Code Point	✘
NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Casefold	Hebrew Accent Gershayim
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Other Alphabetic	✘
Other Default Ignorable Code Point	✘
Other Grapheme Extend	✘
Other ID Continue	✘
Other ID Start	✘
Other Lowercase	✘
Other Math	✘
Other Uppercase	✘
Prepended Concatenation Mark	✘
Pattern Syntax	✘
Pattern White Space	✘
Quotation Mark	✘
Regional Indicator	✘
Radical	✘
Sentence Break	Extend
Soft Dotted	✘
Sentence Terminal	✘
Terminal Punctuation	✘
Unified Ideograph	✘
Variation Selector	✘
Word Break	Extend
White Space	✘
XID Continue	✔
XID Start	✘
Expands On NFC	✘
Expands On NFD	✘
Expands On NFKC	✘
Expands On NFKD	✘
Bidi Paired Bracket	Hebrew Accent Gershayim
Bidi Paired Bracket Type	None
East Asian Width	Neutral
Hangul Syllable Type	Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment	—
Joining Group	No_Joining_Group
Joining Type	Transparent
Line Break	Combining Mark
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	not a number
Simple Case Folding	Hebrew Accent Gershayim
Script Extension
Vertical Orientation	R