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maru.

A Japanese ship, especially a merchant ship.

4 characters2 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈmɑːɹuː/UK/ˈmaɹuː/UK/ˈmɑɹu/US
  1. A Japanese ship, especially a merchant ship.

    the Nippon Maru
  2. A semi-voiced diacritic (゜) used with Japanese kana to change a /h/ to a /p/.

    colloquial
  3. A large, circular punctuation mark (。) used as a full stop in Japanese text.

Where this word comes from

From Japanese 丸(まる) (maru, “circle; suffix used for ship names”).

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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.