Circled dot
The circled dot, circumpunct, or circle with a point at its centre may refer to one or more of these glyphs or articles.
Solar system
- One of many solar symbols used to represent the Sun
- *Gold
- Gardiner N5 : The sun, part of the representation of the name of Ra in Egyptian hieroglyphs. with the larger circle.
- The sun / a day
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 alphabetYas, a letter in the Tifinagh Alphabet
- Brāhmī letter th
- Eye
- A brief contact 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
- In geometry, it is often the symbol for a circle
Computing
- * An indication of selected choice of radio button
- * the application launcher key on Chromebooks
- * 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, a Mensuration sign for meter
- Used, or cancelled, stamp
- The trademark of the Target Corporation
- As a Masonic symbol
- City centre
- End of trail / End of the game. Gone home.
- The Symbol of "Waterhole" in Indigenous Australian Art
- In German stamp catalogues, it is symbol for a "Gestempelte Briefmarke", while a star means "postfrisch"
- In physics, it can be used to denote a vector facing out of the page
- Zugzwang in chess notation