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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 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
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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
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