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+05E1 forms with similar adjacent characters and the hyphen prevents a line break inside it. The glyph can be confused with one other glyph.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
Samekh is the fifteenth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician sāmek 𐤎, Hebrew sāmeḵס, Aramaic samek 𐡎, Syriac semkaṯ ܣ, and Mashriqi Arabic sīn س.
Samekh represents a voiceless alveolar fricative /s/. In the Hebrew language, the samekh has the same pronunciation as the left-dotted shin.
The numerical value of samekh is 60.
Representations
System
Representation (click value to copy)
Nº
1505
UTF-8
D7 A1
UTF-16
05 E1
UTF-32
00 00 05 E1
URL-Quoted
%D7%A1
HTML hex reference
ס
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake
ס
Encoding: CP424 (hex bytes)
59
Encoding: CP856 (hex bytes)
91
Encoding: CP862 (hex bytes)
91
Encoding: CP1255 (hex bytes)
F1
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes)
81 30 FA 39
Encoding: ISO8859_8 (hex bytes)
F1
Encoding: CP424 (hex bytes)
59
Adobe Glyph List
afii57681
Adobe Glyph List
samekh
Adobe Glyph List
samekhhebrew
digraph
S+
RFC 5137
\u'05E1'
Bash and Zsh inside echo -e
\u05E1
C and C++
\u05E1
C#
\u05E1
CSS
\0005E1
Excel
=UNICHAR(1505)
Go
\u05E1
JavaScript
\u05E1
Modern JavaScript since ES6
\u{5e1}
JSON
\u05E1
Java
\u05E1
Lua
\u{5E1}
Matlab
char(1505)
Perl
"\x{5E1}"
PHP
\u{5e1}
PostgreSQL
U&'\05E1'
PowerShell
`u{5E1}
Python
\u05E1
Ruby
\u{5e1}
Rust
\u{5e1}
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