Maru

Noun

Word Frequency: 0.4

Definitions

1.NounA Japanese ship, especially a merchant ship.

"the Nippon Maru"

2.NounA semi-voiced diacritic (゜) used with Japanese kana to change a /h/ to a /p/.

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

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