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 g ...

s or articles

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 hieroglyph Egyptian hieroglyphs (, ) were the formal writing system used in Ancient Egypt, used for writing the Egyptian language. Hieroglyphs combined logographic, syllabic and alphabetic elements, with some 1,000 distinct characters.There were about 1,00 ...

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, the modern character being

日 Radical 72 or radical sun () meaning "sun" or " day" is one of the 34 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 4 strokes. In the ''Kangxi Dictionary'', there are 453 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical. is also ...

)

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 Monism attributes oneness or singleness (Greek: μόνος) to a concept e.g., 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., i ...

: "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 transcription, phonetic notation based primarily on the Latin script. It was devised by the International Phonetic Association in the late 19th century as a standa ...

. The enclosing form is ovoid rather than circular. * '' Hwair'' (), a letter in the

Gothic alphabet The Gothic alphabet is an alphabet used for writing the Gothic language. Ulfilas (or Wulfila) developed it in the 4th century AD for the purpose of translating the Bible. The alphabet essentially uses uncial forms of the Greek alphabet, wit ...

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

Berber languages The Berber languages, also known as the Amazigh languages or Tamazight,, ber, label=Tuareg Tifinagh, ⵜⵎⵣⵗⵜ, ) are a branch of the Afroasiatic language family. They comprise a group of closely related languages spoken by Berber commun ...

) * Brāhmī letter th) () * Eye (

Blissymbols Blissymbols or Blissymbolics is a constructed language conceived as an ideographic writing system called Semantography consisting of several hundred basic symbols, each representing a concept, which can be composed together to generate new sym ...

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

Mathematics

* The mathematical operator represents **the

XNOR gate The XNOR gate (sometimes XORN'T, ENOR, EXNOR or NXOR and pronounced as Exclusive NOR. Alternatively XAND, pronounced Exclusive AND) is a digital logic gate whose function is the logical complement of the Exclusive OR (XOR gate, XOR) gate. It is ...

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 containing various mathematical symbols, including N-ary operators, summations and integrals, intersections and unions, logical and relational operators, and subset/superset relations. Block ...

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

circle A circle is a shape consisting of all points in a plane that are at a given distance from a given point, the centre. Equivalently, it is the curve traced out by a point that moves in a plane so that its distance from a given point is const ...

Computing

* (Unicode

Geometric Shapes Geometric Shapes is a Unicode block of 96 symbols at code point range U+25A0–25FF. U+25A0–U+25CF The BLACK CIRCLE is displayed when typing in a password field, in order to hide characters from a screen recorder or shoulder surfing. U+2 ...

) ** 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 Chromebooks (also known as the "everything key")

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. Philately involves more than just stamp collecting or the study of postage; it is poss ...

) * The trademark of the

Target Corporation Target Corporation (doing business as Target and stylized in all lowercase since 2018) is an American big box department store chain headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It is the seventh largest retailer in the United States, and a compon ...

* As a symbol of the phallus or nature's generative principle and of an Entered Apprentice

Freemason Freemasonry or Masonry refers to fraternal organisations that trace their origins to the local guilds of stonemasons that, from the end of the 13th century, regulated the qualifications of stonemasons and their interaction with authorities ...

City centre A city centre is the commercial, cultural and often the historical, political, and geographic heart of a city. The term "city centre" is primarily used in British English, and closely equivalent terms exist in other languages, such as "" in Fren ...

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

scouting Scouting, also known as the Scout Movement, is a worldwide youth movement employing the Scout method, a program of informal education with an emphasis on practical outdoor activities, including camping, woodcraft, aquatics, hiking, backpacking ...

) * 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 facing out of the page

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