Maru

Last updated October 18, 2025

Maru may refer to:

People

Maru (Heavenly Delusion) (マル), a character from the anime and manga series Heavenly Delusion

Maru, Shwegu, a village in Kachin State, Burma
Maru, Estonia, a village in Halliste Parish, Viljandi County, Estonia
Maru, Iran (disambiguation)
Maru (Irbid), a village in Irbid, Jordan
Maru, Kathmandu, a market and ceremonial square in Kathmandu, Nepal
Maru, Nigeria, a Local Government Area in Zamfara State
Maru-Aten, a palace or sun-temple in Armarna, Egypt
Marusthal or Maru Sthal, a desert in India and Pakistan
- Marwar, a region of the Indian state of Rajasthan in the Thar Desert
  - Marwari (disambiguation)
  - Maru or Marwar[i], a character, the princess of Pugal, in the Rajasthani folktale Dhola Maru
- Maru Pradesh or Maru Sthali, a region and proposed state of the Indian state of Rajasthan in the Thar Desert
- Māru-Gurjara architecture, an architectural style of Rajasthan, India
Mount Maru (disambiguation) (丸山), the name for several mountains on Hokkaidō, Japan

In Japanese maru (kanji: 丸, hiragana: まる), means circle; see Japanese rebus monogram § Variations
- Marujirushi (丸印, correct mark); the opposite of batsu (×)
- Handakuten (半濁点, a Japanese diacritical mark ( ゜)
Maru language, one of several languages spoken among the Kachin people in Myanmar/Burma and China

Maru (cat), a Japanese Internet celebrity cat
Maru, a 1971 novel by Bessie Head
WD 0806−661, a star
Maru, a common suffix to Japanese ship names; See Japanese ship-naming conventions
Maru code (JN-39), a World War II code used by Japanese merchant ships
An alternate term for the Ancient Indian weapon maduvu
One of the ragas of the Sikh religion
One layer in a kuruwa, a Japanese castle wall system