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Translingual
Presentations of ○︎
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Emoji style
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○︎ |
○️
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Note: Character's appearance may be different on each system. Text style is forced with ︎ and emoji style with ️
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Etymology
A generic circle shape.
Symbol
○
- A female family member in a family tree.
- Antonym: □
- (phonetics) an unidentifiable/indeterminate segment
- A circled number ①, ②, ③, etc. represents the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc. item.
2013, Emily Laurence Baker, Slow New Forest: Local, characterful guides to Britain's special places (in English), Bradt Travel Guides, →ISBN, page 109:④ New Forest Wildlife Park
Deerleap Lane, Ashurst SO41 4UH Ⓣ 023 […] Ⓦ www.newforestwildlifepark.co.uk
- A circled letter Ⓐ, Ⓑ, Ⓒ, etc. represents the Ath, Bth, Cth, etc. item.
2004, Faye Berryman, Philip O'Carroll, Fitzroy Word Skills 3 Answer Book (Stories 21-30) (in English), Lai Lai Book Company, →ISBN, page 75:
- Fill each gap below. Use the word from the story.
- Ⓐ It seemed that she just didn't like her toys.
- Ⓑ But her mum answered, “I don't have time...”
- Ⓒ I really like talking.
- (chemistry, obsolete) oxygen (Daltonian symbol)
- (go) a white stone
- Antonym: ●
See also
- Circled letters:
- Ⓐ (“the symbol of anarchism”)
- Ⓣ (“indicates a phone number”)
- Ⓦ (“indicates a website”)
- Ⓧ (“indicates the last date at which the item must be sold at a fixed price under saihan seido, Japan's resale price maintenance system”)
- Ⓨ (“indicates the first date at which the item must be sold at a fixed price under saihan seido, Japan's resale price maintenance system”)
- Intellectual property symbols:
- © (“copyright symbol”)
- ℗ (“sound recording copyright symbol”)
- ® (“registered trademark symbol”)
Japanese
Etymology
Directly from 丸 'circle, circular'.
Noun
○
- circle
- correct, check mark, good
Antonyms
Coordinate terms
Derived terms
Symbol
○ or ○
- Placeholder for a kanji or kana.
- Used to indicate a space to be filled in.
○○が好き- ______ ga suki
- to like ______
- Used to censor or obscure individual characters.
2004, 榎本年弥, 旅の指さし会話帳7 オーストラリア: オーストラリア英語[1], Joho Center Publishing, →ISBN, page 122:
- prick………チ○ポコ
- prickhead………バカ野郎
- dickheadと同じく、「チン○コ頭」の意味。
See also
- 〇 (“zero”, an alternative for 零)