Odd character in directory name

Hello, Loged in as root, I do a listing of a directory that contains
several sub directories and get a result like this:

drwx------    5 rweissne rweissne     4096 Apr 12 10:00 ;registrations

Notice that the directory name starts with the character ;

I then try to enter the directory with:

cd ;registrations

I get the following:

bash: registrations: command not found

What does the ; character do? It seems to me that after the ; the rest
of the directory name, registrations, is seen as a command.

Any ideas how I can enter this directory

Charlie
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