This character is a Other Letter and is mainly used in the Han script. The Unihan Database defines it as woman, girl; feminine; Kangxi radical 38; 10th lunar mansion, determinative star ε Aquarii (Albali). Its Pīnyīn pronunciation is nǚ.
The glyph is not a composition. Its East Asian Width is wide. In bidirectional text it is written from left to right. When changing direction it is not mirrored. U+5973 offers a line break opportunity at its position, except in some numeric contexts. The glyph can be confused with 2 other glyphs.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
Radical 38 or radical woman (女部) meaning "woman" or "female" is one of the 31 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of three strokes.
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 681 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
女 is also the 56th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.