The circled dot, circumpunct, or circle with a point at its centre may refer to one or more of these

glyph A glyph ( ) is any kind of purposeful mark. In typography, a glyph is "the specific shape, design, or representation of a character". It is a particular graphical representation, in a particular typeface, of an element of written language. A ...

s or articles

Solar system

*One of many

solar symbol A solar symbol is a symbol representing the Sun. Common solar symbols include circles (with or without rays), crosses, and spirals. In religious iconography, personifications of the Sun or solar attributes are often indicated by means of a halo ( ...

s used to represent the

Sun The Sun is the star at the centre of the Solar System. It is a massive, nearly perfect sphere of hot plasma, heated to incandescence by nuclear fusion reactions in its core, radiating the energy from its surface mainly as visible light a ...

* ( Planet symbol in astronomy) **Gold ( Alchemical symbols: planetary metals) * Gardiner N5 (): The sun, part of the representation of the name of Ra in

Egyptian hieroglyph Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs ( ) were the formal writing system used in Ancient Egypt for writing the Egyptian language. Hieroglyphs combined ideographic, logographic, syllabic and alphabetic elements, with more than 1,000 distinct characters. ...

s. (This hieroglyph is shown conventionally with a small circle (rather than a dot) with the larger circle. * The sun / a day (Chinese

oracle script Oracle bone script is the oldest attested form of written Chinese, dating to the late 2nd millennium BC. Inscriptions were made by carving characters into oracle bones, usually either the shoulder bones of oxen or the plastrons of turtl ...

, the modern character being 日)

Philosophy and psychology

Self in Jungian psychology The Self in Jungian psychology is a dynamic concept which has undergone numerous modifications since it was first conceptualised as one of the ''Jungian archetypes''. Historically, the Self, according to Carl Jung, signifies the unification of c ...

: "The central dot represents the Ego whereas the Self can be said to consist of the whole with the centred dot." *

Monism Monism attributes oneness or singleness () to a concept, such as to existence. Various kinds of monism can be distinguished: * Priority monism states that all existing things go back to a source that is distinct from them; e.g., in Neoplatonis ...

: "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 The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is an alphabetic system of phonetic notation based primarily on the Latin script. It was devised by the International Phonetic Association in the late 19th century as a standard written representation ...

. * '' Hwair'' (), a letter in the

Gothic alphabet The Gothic alphabet is an alphabet for writing the Gothic language. It was developed in the 4th century AD by Ulfilas (or Wulfila), a Gothic preacher of Cappadocian Greek descent, for the purpose of translating the Bible. The alphabet e ...

* ''Yas'' (), a letter in the Tifinagh Alphabet (

Berber languages The Berber languages, also known as the Amazigh languages or Tamazight, are a branch of the Afroasiatic language family. They comprise a group of closely related but mostly mutually unintelligible languages spoken by Berbers, Berber communities, ...

) * Brāhmī letter th () * Eye ( Blissymbols) * A brief contact (brush) of the signing hand in

SignWriting Sutton SignWriting, or simply SignWriting, is a system of written sign languages. It is highly featural and visually iconic: the shapes of the characters are abstract pictures of the hands, face, and body; and unlike most written words, which ...

Mathematics

* The mathematical operator represents **the XNOR gate or **the Hadamard product, the element wise multiplication of matrices of same size denoted by

A \odot B

* The mathematical operator (see Unicode

Supplemental Mathematical Operators Supplemental Mathematical Operators is a Unicode block A Unicode block is one of several contiguous ranges of numeric character codes (code points) of the Unicode character set that are defined by the Unicode Consortium for administrative and d ...

) * In geometry, it is often the symbol for a

circle A circle is a shape consisting of all point (geometry), points in a plane (mathematics), plane that are at a given distance from a given point, the Centre (geometry), centre. The distance between any point of the circle and the centre is cal ...

Computing

* (Unicode

Geometric Shapes A shape is a graphics, graphical representation of an object's form or its external boundary, outline, or external Surface (mathematics), surface. It is distinct from other object properties, such as color, Surface texture, texture, or material ...

) ** An indication of selected choice of

radio button A radio button or option button is a graphical control element that allows the user to choose only one of a predefined set of mutually exclusive options. The singular property of a radio button makes it distinct from checkboxes, where the user ...

** the application launcher key on

Chromebook Chromebook (sometimes stylized in lowercase as chromebook) is a line of laptops, desktops, tablets and all-in-one computers that run ChromeOS, a proprietary operating system developed by Google. Chromebooks are optimised for web access. They al ...

s (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 Philately (; ) is the study of postage stamps and postal history. It also refers to the collection and appreciation of stamps and other philatelic products. While closely associated with stamp collecting and the study of postage, it is possibl ...

) * The trademark of the

Target Corporation Target Corporation is an American retail corporation that operates a chain of discount department stores and hypermarkets, headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It is the seventh-largest retailer in the United States, and a component of th ...

* As a Masonic symbol *

City centre A city centre, also known as an urban core, is the Commerce, commercial, Culture, cultural and often the historical, Politics, political, and geographic heart of a city. The term "city centre" is primarily used in British English, and closely e ...

(European road-signs) * End of trail / End of the game. Gone home. (

scouting Scouting or the Scout Movement is a youth social movement, movement which became popularly established in the first decade of the twentieth century. It follows the Scout method of informal education with an emphasis on practical outdoor activi ...

) * The Symbol of "Waterhole" (or a related concept) in Australian Aborigine Art * In Germany 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 Vector most often refers to: * Euclidean vector, a quantity with a magnitude and a direction * Disease vector, an agent that carries and transmits an infectious pathogen into another living organism Vector may also refer to: Mathematics a ...

facing out of the page * Zugzwang in chess notation

References

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