You can use a simple border and clip the background to the content-box
to create the transparent part in the padding area:
div.circle {
background: rgba(255, 255, 255, .5) content-box;
padding: 10px;
height: 180px;
width: 180px;
box-sizing: border-box;
border-radius: 50%;
margin:10px auto;
border: 10px solid rgba(255, 255, 255, .5);
}
body {
background: pink;
}
<div class="circle"></div>
You can also consider radial-gradient
div.circle {
background:
radial-gradient(farthest-side,
rgba(255, 255, 255, .5) calc(100% - 20px),transparent calc(100% - 20px),
transparent calc(100% - 10px),rgba(255, 255, 255, .5) calc(100% - 10px));
height: 180px;
width: 180px;
box-sizing: border-box;
border-radius: 50%;
margin:10px auto;
}
body {
background: pink;
}
<div class="circle"></div>
That you can easily scale to any number of borders:
div.circle {
background:
radial-gradient(farthest-side,
#fff calc(100% - 61px),transparent calc(100% - 60px),
transparent calc(100% - 51px),#fff calc(100% - 50px),
#fff calc(100% - 41px),transparent calc(100% - 40px),
transparent calc(100% - 31px),#fff calc(100% - 30px),
#fff calc(100% - 21px),transparent calc(100% - 20px),
transparent calc(100% - 11px),#fff calc(100% - 10px));
height: 180px;
width: 180px;
box-sizing: border-box;
border-radius: 50%;
margin:10px auto;
}
body {
background: pink;
}
<div class="circle"></div>