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maru

/ˈmɑɹu/ noun C2
  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.

Plural marus

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