Japanese edit

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, is the hiragana spelling of the above terms.)