はもん

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of はもん – see the following entries.

【波紋】 [noun] ripple, a moving disturbance or undulation in the surface of a liquid.

【破門】 [noun] excommunication [noun] expulsion of a member from a Buddhist monkhood, a performing arts group, or a yakuza group. [verb] to excommunicate [verb] to expel

(This term, はもん (hamon), is the hiragana spelling of the above terms.)