different between handakuten vs maru

English

Etymology

From Japanese ??? (??????, handakuten), from Middle Chinese ? (pàn, “half”) + ? (?æwk, “muddy, voiced”) + ? (tém, “mark, spot”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hæn?dæku?t?n/, /h??n?d??ku?t?n/

Noun

handakuten (plural handakuten)

1. A semi-voiced diacritic (?) used with Japanese kana to change a /h/ to a /p/.

   Synonym: (colloquial) maru

Related terms

• dakuten, tenten

Translations

Japanese

Romanization

handakuten

1. R?maji transcription of ??????

English

Etymology

From Japanese ?, ? (??, maru, “circle”, also a suffix for ship names).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?m???u?/, /?ma?u?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?m??u/

Noun

maru (plural marus)

1. (prepositive or postpositive) A suffix of Japanese ship names.

2. (colloquial) A semi-voiced diacritic (?) used with Japanese kana to change a /h/ to a /p/.

   Synonym: handakuten

3. A large, circular punctuation mark (?) used as a full stop in Japanese text.

Coordinate terms

• nigori

Translations

Anagrams

• 'umra, Amur, Mura, Umar, amur, arum, mura

Anguthimri

Noun

maru

1. (Mpakwithi) queenfish

References

• Terry Crowley, The Mpakwithi dialect of Anguthimri (1981), page 187

Japanese

Romanization

maru

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

maru f (definite singular maro, indefinite plural marur, definite plural marune)

1. form removed with the spelling reform of 1917; superseded by mare

Anagrams

• maur, mura

Pali

Alternative forms

Etymology 1

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Noun

maru m

1. deity

Declension

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

maru f

1. sand
2. (by extension) sandy waste