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Maru vs Masu - What's the difference?

maru | masu |

As nouns the difference between maru and masu

is that maru is a suffix of Japanese ship names while masu is a plant, species: Hedysarum alpinum, whose edible root is consumed by the Inuit of Alaska.

maru

English

Noun

  • A suffix of Japanese ship names.
  • :The Nippon Maru
  • (linguistics, colloquial) A diacritic ( ? ) used with Japanese kana to change an h'' to a ''p .
  • A large, circular punctuation mark ( ? ) used as a full stop in Japanese text.

    • Synonyms

    * (diacritics) handakuten

    See also

    * dakuten * nigori * tenten, ten-ten, ten ten

    Anagrams

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    masu

    English

    (wikipedia masu)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) masu.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A plant, , whose edible root is consumed by the Inuit of Alaska.

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (masu)
  • A square wooden box, originally used to measure rice in Japan during the feudal period.

    • Anagrams

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