maru

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Noun 1.3 Synonyms 1.4 See also 1.5 Anagrams 2 Japanese 2.1 Noun

[edit] English

[edit] Etymology

From Japanese 円, 丸 (まる, maru), "circle; suffix for ship names".

[edit] Noun

maru

1. A suffix of Japanese ship names. The Nippon Maru
2. (linguistics, colloquial) A diacritic ( ゜ ) used with Japanese kana to change an h to a p.
3. A large, circular punctuation mark ( 。 ) used as a full stop in Japanese text.

[edit] Synonyms

• (2) handakuten

[edit] See also

• dakuten
• nigori
• tenten, ten-ten, ten ten

[edit] Anagrams

• Anagrams of amru
• Amur
• arum
• mura
• 'umra

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[edit] Japanese

[edit] Noun

maru (hiragana まる)

1. 丸, 円, ○, 〇: circle
2. 丸: A suffix of Japanese ship names.
3. ゜: (linguistics, colloquial) a diacritic ( ゜) used with Japanese kana to change an h to a p.
4. 。: A large, circular punctuation mark ( 。 ) used as a full stop in Japanese text.