Circled dot
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The circled dot, circumpunct, or circle with a point at its centre may refer to one or more of these glyphs or articles
⨀ ⊙ ☉ ◉ 𑀣 𐍈 ʘ | |
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Circled dot | |
In Unicode | U+2299 ⊙ CIRCLED DOT OPERATOR; U+2A00 ⨀ N-ARY CIRCLED DOT OPERATOR; U+2609 ☉ SUN U+25C9 ◉ FISHEYE U+11023 𑀣 BRAHMI LETTER THA U+10348 𐍈 GOTHIC LETTER HWAIR U+0298 ʘ LATIN LETTER BILABIAL CLICK |
Different from | |
Different from | U+229A ⊚ CIRCLED RING OPERATOR U+131F3 𓇳 EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPH N005 |
Solar system
[edit]- One of many solar symbols used to represent the Sun
- U+2609 ☉ SUN (Planet symbol in astronomy)
- Gardiner N5 (U+131F3 𓇳 EGYPTIAN 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- Bilabial clicks (U+0298 ʘ LATIN LETTER BILABIAL CLICK), a symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet.
- Hwair (U+10348 𐍈 GOTHIC LETTER HWAIR), a letter in the Gothic alphabet
- Yas (U+2D59 ⵙ TIFINAGH LETTER YAS), a letter in the Tifinagh Alphabet (Berber languages)
- Brāhmī letter th (U+11023 𑀣 BRAHMI LETTER THA)
- Eye (Blissymbols)
- A brief contact (brush) of the signing hand in SignWriting
Mathematics
[edit]- 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
- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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 symbol of the phallus or nature's generative principle and of an Entered Apprentice Freemason
- City centre (European road-signs)
- End of trail / End of the game. Gone home. (scouting)
- 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
- Zugzwang in chess notation
See also
[edit]- The Lost Symbol – a novel by Dan Brown that uses this symbol.