maru in English dictionary maru Meanings and definitions of "maru" A suffix of Japanese ship names. The Nippon Maru (linguistics, colloquial) A diacritic ( ゚ ) used with Japanese kana to change an h to a p . A large, circular punctuation mark ( 。 ) used as a full stop in Japanese text. noun A suffix of Japanese ship names. noun (linguistics, colloquial) A diacritic ( ゚ ) used with Japanese kana to change an b to a p. noun A large, circular punctuation mark ( 。 ) used as a full stop in Japanese text. more Maru Sample sentences with "maru" Declension Stem Try again Available translations Chinese French Tamil Authors