- Source: 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
U+2609 ☉ SUN (Planet symbol in astronomy)
Gold (Alchemical symbols: planetary metals)
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
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 (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
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
A
⊙
B
{\displaystyle A\odot B}
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
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
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 98 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
The Lost Symbol – a novel by Dan Brown that uses this symbol.
References
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Tanda kali
- Circled dot
- Blowin' Up
- XNOR gate
- ODOT
- Circle symbol
- Dotted circle
- Solar symbol
- Bilabial click
- Fisheye
- List of logic symbols