This character is a Other Letter 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 is written from right to left. When changing direction it is not mirrored. This letter joins with other adjacent letters and numbers to form a word. The word that U+05D6 forms with similar adjacent characters and the hyphen prevents a line break inside it.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
Zayin (also spelled zain or zayn or simply zay) is the seventh letter of the Semitic abjads, including Arabic zāyز, Aramaic zain 𐡆, Hebrew zayīnז, Phoenician zayn 𐤆, and Syriac zayn ܙ. It represents the sound [z].
The Phoenician letter gave rise to the Greek zeta (Ζ), Etruscan z , Latin Z, and Cyrillic Ze З, as well as Ж.
Representations
System
Representation (click value to copy)
Nº
1494
UTF-8
D7 96
UTF-16
05 D6
UTF-32
00 00 05 D6
URL-Quoted
%D7%96
HTML hex reference
ז
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake
×–
Encoding: CP424 (hex bytes)
47
Encoding: CP856 (hex bytes)
86
Encoding: CP862 (hex bytes)
86
Encoding: CP1255 (hex bytes)
E6
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes)
81 30 F9 38
Encoding: ISO8859_8 (hex bytes)
E6
Encoding: CP424 (hex bytes)
47
Adobe Glyph List
afii57670
Adobe Glyph List
zayin
Adobe Glyph List
zayinhebrew
digraph
Z+
RFC 5137
\u'05D6'
Bash and Zsh inside echo -e
\u05D6
C and C++
\u05D6
C#
\u05D6
CSS
\0005D6
Excel
=UNICHAR(1494)
Go
\u05D6
JavaScript
\u05D6
Modern JavaScript since ES6
\u{5d6}
JSON
\u05D6
Java
\u05D6
Lua
\u{5D6}
Matlab
char(1494)
Perl
"\x{5D6}"
PHP
\u{5d6}
PostgreSQL
U&'\05D6'
PowerShell
`u{5D6}
Python
\u05D6
Ruby
\u{5d6}
Rust
\u{5d6}
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