The red dot worn on the forehead by many Hindus is called a bindi, pottu, or tikra, depending on the language and region). It is a religious symbol that represents divine sight and shows that one is a Hindu. The bindi is traditionally red and is applied in the center of the forehead close to the eyebrows or in the middle of the forehead). It is made of vermilion or kumkum powder, which is a red pigment. The color red represents honor, love, and prosperity in Hinduism, hence it was worn to symbolize these aspects). The bindi also has a mystical meaning, representing the third eye of spiritual sight, which sees things the physical eyes cannot see. For Hindu women, the forehead dot is also a beauty mark, not unlike the black mark European and American women once wore on the cheek.