circled dot

• One of many solar symbols used to represent the Sun
• {{unichar|2609|Sun}} (Planet symbol in astronomy)
• Gold (Alchemical symbols: planetary metals)
• Gardiner N5 ({{unichar|131F3|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)

• 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"

• Bilabial clicks ({{unichar|0298|Latin letter bilabial click}}), a symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet.
• Hwair ({{unichar|10348|Gothic letter hwair}}), a letter in the Gothic alphabet
• Yas ({{unichar|2D59|Tifinagh letter yas}}), a letter in the Tifinagh Alphabet (Berber languages)
• Brāhmī letter th ({{unichar|11023|Brahmi letter tha}})
• Eye (Blissymbols)

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

• The mathematical operator {{unichar|2299|Circled dot operator|nlink=XNOR gate}} represents
• the XNOR gate or
• the Hadamard product, the element wise multiplication of matrices of same size denoted by $A\; \backslash odot\; B$
• The mathematical operator {{unichar|2A00|n-ary circled dot operator}} (see Unicode Supplemental Mathematical Operators)
• In geometry, it is often the symbol for a circle

• {{unichar|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"

• A nazar is a circled-dot-shaped amulet
• Center of pressure
• The musical symbol for {{lang|la|tempus perfectum cum prolatione perfecta}} ({{unichar|1D1c7|MUSICAL SYMBOL TEMPUS PERFECTUM CUM PROLATIONE PERFECTA}}), a Mensuration sign for {{music|time|9|8}} 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 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

• The Lost Symbol – a novel by Dan Brown that uses this symbol.

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