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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
Circled dot
In  UnicodeU+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 fromU+229A CIRCLED RING OPERATOR
U+131F3 𓇳 EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPH N005

Solar system

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

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

Mathematics

Computing

Other uses

  • 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

References