Source: Noto Sans Hebrew

U+05B5 HEBREW POINT TSERE

U+05B5 was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (1993). 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+05B5 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:

Tzere (also spelled Tsere, Tzeirei, Zere, Zeire, Ṣērê; modern Hebrew: צֵירֵי, IPA: [tseˈʁe], sometimes also written צירה‎; formerly צֵרֵי‎ ṣērê) is a Hebrew niqqud vowel sign represented by two horizontally-aligned dots "◌ֵ" underneath a letter. In modern Hebrew, tzere is pronounced the same as and indicates the phoneme /e/ which is the same as the "e" sound in the vowel segol and is transliterated as an "e". There was a distinction in Tiberian Hebrew between segol and Tzere.

Representations

System	Representation
Nº	1461
UTF-8	D6 B5
UTF-16	05 B5
UTF-32	00 00 05 B5
URL-Quoted	%D6%B5
HTML-Escape	ֵ
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake	âÖµ
Encoding: WINDOWS-1255 (hex bytes)	C5
Adobe Glyph List	afii57794
Adobe Glyph List	tsere
Adobe Glyph List	tsere12
Adobe Glyph List	tsere1e
Adobe Glyph List	tsere2b
Adobe Glyph List	tserehebrew
Adobe Glyph List	tserenarrowhebrew
Adobe Glyph List	tserequarterhebrew
Adobe Glyph List	tserewidehebrew

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property	Value
Age	1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name	HEBREW POINT TSERE
Unicode 1 Name	—
Block	Hebrew
General Category	Nonspacing Mark
Script	Hebrew
Bidirectional Category	Nonspacing Mark
Combining Class	Ccc15
Decomposition Type	None
Decomposition Mapping	Hebrew Point Tsere
Lowercase	✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping	Hebrew Point Tsere
Lowercase Mapping	Hebrew Point Tsere
Uppercase	✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping	Hebrew Point Tsere
Uppercase Mapping	Hebrew Point Tsere
Simple Titlecase Mapping	Hebrew Point Tsere
Titlecase Mapping	Hebrew Point Tsere
Case Folding	Hebrew Point Tsere
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 Point Tsere
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 Point Tsere
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 Point Tsere
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 Point Tsere
Script Extension
Vertical Orientation	R