This character is a Other Punctuation and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script. The character is also known as Greek pentonkion and quincunx.
The glyph is not a composition. It has no designated width in East Asian texts. In bidirectional text it acts as Other Neutral. When changing direction it is not mirrored. U+2059 offers a line break opportunity after its position.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
A quincunx ( KWIN-kunks) is a geometric pattern consisting of five points arranged in a cross, with four of them forming a square or rectangle and a fifth at its center. The same pattern has other names, including "in saltire" or "in cross" in heraldry (depending on the orientation of the outer square), the five-point stencil in numerical analysis, and the five dots tattoo. It forms the arrangement of five units in the pattern corresponding to the five-spot on six-sided dice, playing cards, and dominoes. It is represented in Unicode as U+2059⁙FIVE DOT PUNCTUATION or (for the die pattern) U+2684⚄DIE FACE-5.
Representations
System
Representation (click value to copy)
Nº
8281
UTF-8
E2 81 99
UTF-16
20 59
UTF-32
00 00 20 59
URL-Quoted
%E2%81%99
HTML hex reference
⁙
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake
â™
alias
Greek pentonkion
alias
quincunx
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes)
81 36 AA 39
RFC 5137
\u'2059'
Bash and Zsh inside echo -e
\u2059
C and C++
\u2059
C#
\u2059
CSS
\002059
Excel
=UNICHAR(8281)
Go
\u2059
JavaScript
\u2059
Modern JavaScript since ES6
\u{2059}
JSON
\u2059
Java
\u2059
Lua
\u{2059}
Matlab
char(8281)
Perl
"\x{2059}"
PHP
\u{2059}
PostgreSQL
U&'\2059'
PowerShell
`u{2059}
Python
\u2059
Ruby
\u{2059}
Rust
\u{2059}
Click the star button next to each label to set this representation as favorite or remove it from the favorites. Favorites will be shown initially. (Favorites are stored locally on your computer and never sent over the internet.)