The circled dot, circumpunct, or circle with a point at its centre may refer to one or more glyphs, graphemes or concepts.

Contents

• Solar system
• Philosophy and psychology
• Language and linguistics
• Mathematics
• Computing
• Other uses
• See also
• References

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Solar system

• One of many solar symbols used to represent the Sun
• U+2609☉SUN (Planet symbol in astronomy)
  • Gold (Alchemical symbols: planetary metals)
• Gardiner N5 (U+131F3𓇳EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPH N005): The sun, part of the representation of the name of Ra in Egyptian hieroglyphs. (This hieroglyph is shown conventionally with a small circle (rather than a dot) with the larger circle.
• The sun / a day (Chinese oracle script, the modern character being 日)

Philosophy and psychology

• Self in Jungian psychology: "The central dot represents the Ego whereas the Self can be said to consist of the whole with the centred dot."
• Monism: "The circled dot was used by the Pythagoreans and later Greeks to represent the first metaphysical being, the Monad or The Absolute"

Language and linguistics

• Bilabial clicks (U+0298ʘLATIN LETTER BILABIAL CLICK), a symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet.
• Hwair (U+10348𐍈GOTHIC LETTER HWAIR), a letter in the Gothic alphabet
• Yas (U+2D59ⵙTIFINAGH LETTER YAS), a letter in the Tifinagh Alphabet (Berber languages)
• Brāhmī letter th (U+11023𑀣BRAHMI LETTER THA)
• Eye (Blissymbols)

• A brief contact (brush) of the signing hand in SignWriting

Mathematics

• The mathematical operator U+2299⊙ CIRCLED DOT OPERATOR represents
  • the XNOR gate or
  • the Hadamard product, the element wise multiplication of matrices of same size denoted by ${\displaystyle A\odot B}$
• The mathematical operator U+2A00⨀N-ARY CIRCLED DOT OPERATOR (see Unicode Supplemental Mathematical Operators)
• In geometry, it is often the symbol for a circle

Computing

• U+25C9◉FISHEYE (Unicode Geometric Shapes)
  • An indication of selected choice of radio button
  • the application launcher key on Chromebooks (also known as the "everything key")
  • In Japan, the symbol is called tainome and is a kind of typographical "bullet"

Other uses

• A nazar is a circled-dot-shaped amulet
• Center of pressure
• The musical symbol for tempus perfectum cum prolatione perfecta (U+1D1C7𝇇MUSICAL SYMBOL TEMPUS PERFECTUM CUM PROLATIONE PERFECTA), a Mensuration sign for ⁹
  ₈ meter
• Used, or cancelled, stamp (philately)
• The trademark of the Target Corporation
• As a Masonic symbol
• City centre (European road-signs)
• End of trail / End of the game. Gone home. (scouting)
• The Symbol of "Waterhole" (or a related concept) in Indigenous Australian Art
• In German stamp catalogues, it is symbol for a "Gestempelte Briefmarke" (canceled stamp), while a star means "postfrisch" (mint Stamp)
• In physics, it can be used to denote a vector facing out of the page
• Zugzwang in chess notation

See also

• Bullseye (disambiguation)
• The Lost Symbol – a novel by Dan Brown that uses this symbol; seen stylistically for ⟨o⟩ in the logo for the spinoff TV series

References

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