[Tex/LaTex] Arrow with circle in the middle

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What is the latex command for a right arrow with a circle in the middle?
I have tried detexify and the comprehensive latex symbols list but did not find.

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A simple TikZ version:

The \arrowcircle allows for some TikZ options to be specified as optional argument.

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{tikz}

\newcommand{\arrowcircle}[1][]{%
  \begin{tikzpicture}[#1]
    \draw[->] (0,0ex) -- (2em,0ex);
    \draw (1em,0ex) circle (0.7ex);
  \end{tikzpicture}%
}

\begin{document}
Some dummy text \arrowcircle[blue,line width=0.8pt] continues here!
\end{document}

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Unicode defines ⥴ (U+2974 RIGHTWARDS ARROW ABOVE TILDE OPERATOR), which you can use in case you run Xe/LuaLaTeX with unicode-math (either directly or with the \rightarrowsimilar alias). There are also ⥱ (\equalrightarrow), ⥲ (\similarrightarrow), ⥳ (\leftarrowsimilar), ⥵ (\rightarrowapprox) and other strange things.

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These "player buttons" are unique to the animate package and are constructed from low-level Postscript commands.

The following MWE provides an interface to the symbols, entirely extracted from animate.sty (minus some colour settings). Each of the symbols is 15pt in width. Since the commands are low-level, they produce a zero-width representation within LaTeX, and can therefore be overlaid to make more elaborate constructs (like the construction of the "symbol" <||>).

The interface is provided by \pstverb from the pstricks package. Compile using the sequence latex->dvips->ps2pdf or xelatex:

Animate package "player buttons"

\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{pstricks}%
\makeatletter
\def\@anim@btnend{%
%  \@anim@bg\space
%  \@anim@fg\space
  0.25 setlinewidth
  1 setlinecap
  1 setlinejoin
  1 1 moveto
  14 1 lineto
  14 14 lineto
  1 14 lineto
  closepath
  stroke
  1 setlinewidth
  4.5 4 moveto
  9.5 7.5 lineto
  4.5 11 lineto
  stroke
  0 setlinejoin
  10.5 4.4 moveto
  10.5 10.6 lineto
  stroke
}
\def\@anim@btnstep{%
%  \@anim@bg\space
%  \@anim@fg\space
  0.25 setlinewidth
  1 setlinecap
  1 setlinejoin
  1 1 moveto
  14 1 lineto
  14 14 lineto
  1 14 lineto
  closepath
  stroke
  1 setlinewidth
  5 4 moveto
  10 7.5 lineto
  5 11 lineto
  stroke
}
\def\@anim@btnplay{%
%  \@anim@bg\space
%  \@anim@fg\space
  0.25 setlinewidth
  1 setlinecap
  1 setlinejoin
  1 1 moveto
  14 1 lineto
  14 14 lineto
  1 14 lineto
  closepath
  stroke
  1 setlinewidth
  5 4 moveto
  5 11 lineto
  10 7.5 lineto
  closepath
  stroke
}
\def\@anim@btnpause{%
%  \@anim@bg\space
%  \@anim@fg\space
  0.25 setlinewidth
  0 setlinecap
  1 setlinejoin
  0 1 moveto
  14 1 lineto
  14 14 lineto
  0 14 lineto
  stroke
  2 setlinewidth
  2.2 4 moveto
  2.2 11 lineto
  stroke
}
\def\@anim@btnminus{%
%  \@anim@bg\space
%  \@anim@fg\space
  0.25 setlinewidth
  1 setlinecap
  1 setlinejoin
  1 1 moveto
  14 1 lineto
  14 14 lineto
  1 14 lineto
  closepath
  stroke
  1.0 setlinewidth
  0 setlinecap
  4 7.5 moveto
  11 7.5 lineto
  stroke
}
\def\@anim@btnplus{%
%  \@anim@bg\space
%  \@anim@fg\space
  0.25 setlinewidth
  1 setlinecap
  1 setlinejoin
  1 1 moveto
  14 1 lineto
  14 14 lineto
  1 14 lineto
  closepath
  stroke
  1.0 setlinewidth
  0 setlinecap
  4 7.5 moveto
  11 7.5 lineto
  7.5 4  moveto
  7.5 11 lineto
  stroke
}
\def\@anim@btnreset{%
%  \@anim@bg\space
%  \@anim@fg\space
  0.25 setlinewidth
  1 setlinecap
  1 setlinejoin
  1 1 moveto
  14 1 lineto
  14 14 lineto
  1 14 lineto
  closepath
  stroke
  1 setlinewidth
  7.5 4 moveto
  7.5 11 lineto
  stroke
  0 setlinejoin
  3.5 5 moveto
  7 7.5 lineto
  3.5 10 lineto
  closepath
  fill
  11.5 5 moveto
  8 7.5 lineto
  11.5 10 lineto
  closepath
  fill
  1 setlinewidth
  2 setlinecap
  3 7.5 moveto
  3.5 7.5 lineto
  12 7.5 moveto
  11.5 7.5 lineto
  stroke
}

\def\btnendleft{\pstverb{[-1 0 0 1 15 0] concat \@anim@btnend}}%
\def\btnendright{\pstverb{\@anim@btnend}}%
\def\btnminus{\pstverb{\@anim@btnminus}}%
\def\btnpauseleft{\pstverb{[-1 0 0 1 15 0] concat \@anim@btnpause}}%
\def\btnpauseright{\pstverb{\@anim@btnpause}}%
\def\btnplayleft{\pstverb{[-1 0 0 1 15 0] concat \@anim@btnplay}}%
\def\btnplayright{\pstverb{\@anim@btnplay}}%
\def\btnplus{\pstverb{\@anim@btnplus}}%
\def\btnreset{\pstverb{\@anim@btnreset}}%
\def\btnstepleft{\pstverb{[-1 0 0 1 15 0] concat \@anim@btnstep}}%
\def\btnstepright{\pstverb{\@anim@btnstep}}%
\makeatother

\begin{document}

\verb|Left end:   |~\btnendleft \par
\verb|Right end:  |~\btnendright \par
\verb|Minus:      |~\btnminus \par
\verb|Left pause: |~\btnpauseleft \par
\verb|Right pause:|~\btnpauseright \par
\verb|Left play:  |~\btnplayleft \par
\verb|Right play: |~\btnplayright \par
\verb|Plus:       |~\btnplus \par
\verb|Reset:      |~\btnreset \par
\verb|Left step:  |~\btnstepleft \par
\verb|Right step: |~\btnstepright

\bigskip

\verb!<||> :      !~\btnpauseleft\btnplayleft\hspace{15pt}\btnpauseright\btnplayright

\end{document}

marvosym also provides some playback buttons, as shown in Table 209 of Scott Pakin's Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol List:

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fontawesome also provides some playback symbols:

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Requires the use of Xe(La)TeX or Lua(La)TeX.

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