This character is a Nonspacing Mark and is mainly used in the Hebrew script. The character is also known as yored.
The glyph is not a composition. It has no designated width in East Asian texts. In bidirectional text it acts as Nonspacing Mark. When changing direction it is not mirrored. U+05A5 prohibits a line break before it.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
Mercha (Hebrew: מֵרְכָא, also spelled Merkha and other variant English spellings) is a cantillation mark commonly found in the Torah, Haftarah, and other books that are chanted.
Mercha is found in several trope groups, though the melody varies from one use to the next. It is the beginning of the Etnachta group, can be found either once or twice preceding the Sof passuk, or can occasionally precede the Pashta in the Katon group or a Tevir.
Mercha appears in the Torah 9117 times—the second most of any trope sounds. Only Tipcha occurs more often.
The Hebrew word מֵרְכָא translates into English as mercha.
Representations
System
Representation (click value to copy)
Nº
1445
UTF-8
D6 A5
UTF-16
05 A5
UTF-32
00 00 05 A5
URL-Quoted
%D6%A5
HTML hex reference
֥
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake
◌֥
alias
yored
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes)
81 30 F4 39
Adobe Glyph List
merkhahebrew
Adobe Glyph List
merkhalefthebrew
RFC 5137
\u'05A5'
Bash and Zsh inside echo -e
\u05A5
C and C++
\u05A5
C#
\u05A5
CSS
\0005A5
Excel
=UNICHAR(1445)
Go
\u05A5
JavaScript
\u05A5
Modern JavaScript since ES6
\u{5a5}
JSON
\u05A5
Java
\u05A5
Lua
\u{5A5}
Matlab
char(1445)
Perl
"\x{5A5}"
PHP
\u{5a5}
PostgreSQL
U&'\05A5'
PowerShell
`u{5A5}
Python
\u05A5
Ruby
\u{5a5}
Rust
\u{5a5}
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