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
 * (Planet symbol in astronomy)
 * Gold (Alchemical symbols: planetary metals)
 * Gardiner N5 : 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

 * 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 alphabet
 * Yas, a letter in the Tifinagh Alphabet (Berber languages)
 * Brāhmī letter th
 * Eye (Blissymbols)


 * A brief contact (brush) 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 $$A \odot B$$
 * The mathematical operator (see Unicode Supplemental Mathematical Operators)
 * In geometry, it is often the symbol for a circle

Computing

 * (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

 * 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 (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