Circled dot

• 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 (), a Mensuration sign for meter • Used, or cancelled, stamp (philately) • The trademark of the Target Corporation • As a Masonic symbol • City centre (European road-signs) • End of trail / End of the game. Gone home. (scouting) • The Symbol of "Waterhole" (or a related concept) in Indigenous Australian Art • In German stamp catalogues, 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==