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丸: ball; pellet; pill

丸 wán

measure word
: ball; pill; pellet; bullet

Kun Reading

丸 | まる maru

noun
: circle
: (Prefix) full (e.g. month, day, etc.)
: perfection; purity
: suffix for ship names

丸い | まるい marui

adjective
: round; circular; spherical
: harmonious; calm

丸で | まるで marude

adverb
: quite; entirely; completely; at all; as if; as though; so to speak; just like

丸め | まるめ marume

noun
: rounding

丸める | まるめる marumeru

ichidan verb | transitive verb
: to make round; to roll up; to curl up
: to seduce; to cajole; to explain away
: to round off (a fraction)
: (Archaism) to lump together

On Reading

丸 | がん gan

noun | noun suffix
: fishball; meatball
: pill

Usage:

丸子 wan2zi; pills; balls; meatballs
丸藥[药[ wan2yao4: pilular
彈[弹]丸 dan4wan2: pellet
[弾丸 | だんがん dangan: bullet; shot; shell]
睾丸 gao1wan2: testicle; Taiwan variant of 睾丸
睾丸 gao1wan2: testicle [睾丸 | こうがん kougan: testicles; testes; balls]
肉丸 rou4wan2: meatball

牛肉丸 niu2 rou4 wan2: beef meatballs

魚[鱼]丸 yu2wan2: fish ball
[薩摩揚げ | さつまあげ satsumaage: deep-fried ball of fish paste]
萘丸 nai4: mothball; naphthalene ball



Japanese common word | expression | yojijukugo 四字熟語 | idiom
丸の侭 | まるのまま maru no mama
: (kana only) in its entirety; whole

丸切り | まるきり marukiri
: (kana only) completely; perfectly; totally; just as if

丸潰れ | まるつぶれ marutsubure
: complete ruin; collapse
: losing (something) completely (e.g. face)
OR
面目丸潰れ | めんもくまるつぶれ menmoku maru tsubure OR めんぼくまるつぶれ menboku maru tsubure
: complete loss of face

丸くなる | まるくなる marukunaru
: to mellow (e.g. personality)
: to be rounded
: to huddle; to cower; to be hunched; to curl up

丸聞こえ | まるぎこえ maru gikoe
: being able to hear everything (esp. when one was not intended to)

弾丸飛雨 | だんがんひう dangan hiu
: (yoji) hail of bullets; heavy bombardment

坊主丸儲け | ぼうずまるもうけ bouzu maru mouke
: monks make pure profit; monks need no capital and have no expenses, so their income is pure profit

言い丸める | いいまるめる iimarumeru
: to do sweet-talk

丸々と太った | まるまるとふとった marumaru to futotta
: (can act as adjective) rotund; plump; chubby

一丸となって | いちがんとなって ichigan to natte
: in unison; as one; united

梵天丸もかくありたい | ぼんてんまるもかくありたい bontenmaru mo kakuaritai
: (joc) I wish the same for myself

打って一丸となる | うっていちがんとなる utte ichigan to naru
: to be united; to act as a single body



Chinese expression
吃了定心丸 chi1 le5 ding4 xin1 wan2
: to feel reassured

Etymology:
丸 wan2: small round object; pellet, pill =
九 jiu3: nine +
丶 zhu3: dot radical 3



 Look-alike:
fan2: common, all
[kun:すべて subete, およそ oyoso, おおよそ ooyoso. on: ぼん bon OR はん han]



Examples:

富士山に登るのに丸一晩かかった。
ふじさんにのぼるのにまるいちばんかかった fujisan ni noboru no ni maru ichi ban kakatta
It took all night to climb Mt Fuji.

 
我喜歡吃魚丸米粉湯。
wo3 xi huan1 chi1 yu2wan2 mi3fen3 tang1
I like to eat fish ball vermicelli soup.

Resources: Chinese Dictionary | Japanese Dictionary