maru

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Noun

1. A [[Japanese]] [[ship]], especially a merchant ship.
2. {{lb|en|colloquial}} A [[semi-voiced]] [[diacritic]] ({{m|ja|゜}}) used with Japanese [[kana]] to change a {{IPAchar|/h/}} to a {{IPAchar|/p/}}.
3. A large, circular [[punctuation]] mark ({{m|ja|。}}) used as a [[full stop]] in Japanese text.

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