Maru
Origin
From Japanese 円, 丸, "circle; suffix for ship names".
Full definition of maru
Noun
maru
- A suffix of Japanese ship names.The Nippon Maru
- (linguistics, colloquial) A diacritic ( ゜ ) used with Japanese kana to change an h to a p.
- A large, circular punctuation mark ( 。 ) used as a full stop in Japanese text.
Synonyms
- (diacritics) handakuten