Language
- In Japanese:
- maru (まる), meaning circle (◯; Unicode: U+25EF)
- maru (まる), meaning "correct"; the opposite of batsu
- maru (まる), meaning zero (0)
- maru (丸), synonym for kuruwa, a type of Japanese castle wall
- A Japanese diacritical mark ( ゜) used in kana to change an h to a p
- A Japanese punctuation mark (。) for the end-of-sentence fullstop
- Maru language, one of several languages spoken among the Kachin people in Myanmar/Burma and China.
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