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MilitantAgnostic's avatar

Japanese has an extremely limited sound system, so there are a lot of words that sound alike. They can only be differentiated by context or in writing using Chinese-based characters ("kanji"). Here's a link to a page that translates the various maru words: https://jisho.org/search/maru.

I imagine the operative one here is "female given name", first listing under Names in the right-hand column.

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Oblio's Cap's avatar

It's been over 40 years since I took Japanese.

Kobiashi Maru!

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