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noun 
  1. A suffix of Japanese ship names. The Nippon Maru
  2. (context, linguistics, colloquial) A diacritic ( ゜ ) used with Japanese kana to change an h to a p.
  3. A large, circular punctuation mark ( 。 ) used as a full stop in Japanese text.
Etymology: From Japanese å, ä (ãã, maru), "circle; suffix for ship names".

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