The circled dot, circumpunct, or circle with a point at its centre may refer to one or more glyphs, graphemes or concepts.
Solar system One of many solar symbols used to represent the Sun (Planet symbol in astronomy) Gold (Alchemical symbols: planetary metals) Gardiner N5 (): The sun, part of the representation of the name of Ra in Egyptian hieroglyphs. This hieroglyph is conventionally shown with a small circle (rather than a dot) inside the large 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 (), a symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet. Hwair (), a letter in the Gothic alphabet Yas (), a letter in the Tifinagh Alphabet (Berber languages) Brāhmī letter th () Eye (Blissymbols)
A brief contact (brush) of the signing hand in SignWriting
Mathematics The mathematical operator represents the XNOR gate or the Hadamard product, the element wise multiplication of matrices of same size denoted by The mathematical operator (see Unicode Supplemental Mathematical Operators) In geometry, it is often the symbol for a circle
Computing (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 (), a Mensuration sign for 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 in the logo for the spinoff TV series
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