This character is a Nonspacing Mark and is mainly used in the Hebrew script.
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+05C5 prohibits a line break before it. The glyph can be confused with one other glyph.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
The Unicode and HTML for the Hebrew alphabet are found in the following tables. The Unicode Hebrew block extends from U+0590 to U+05FF and from U+FB1D to U+FB4F. It includes letters, ligatures, combining diacritical marks (niqqud and cantillation marks) and punctuation. The Numeric Character References are included for HTML. These can be used in many markup languages, and they are often used on web pages to create the Hebrew glyphs presentable by the majority of web browsers.
Representations
System
Representation (click value to copy)
Nº
1477
UTF-8
D7 85
UTF-16
05 C5
UTF-32
00 00 05 C5
URL-Quoted
%D7%85
HTML hex reference
ׅ
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake
◌ׅ
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes)
81 30 F8 31
RFC 5137
\u'05C5'
Bash and Zsh inside echo -e
\u05C5
C and C++
\u05C5
C#
\u05C5
CSS
\0005C5
Excel
=UNICHAR(1477)
Go
\u05C5
JavaScript
\u05C5
Modern JavaScript since ES6
\u{5c5}
JSON
\u05C5
Java
\u05C5
Lua
\u{5C5}
Matlab
char(1477)
Perl
"\x{5C5}"
PHP
\u{5c5}
PostgreSQL
U&'\05C5'
PowerShell
`u{5C5}
Python
\u05C5
Ruby
\u{5c5}
Rust
\u{5c5}
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