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幕
JLPT N1 SL6 13 strokes Frequency: #835

Meanings

Curtain, Bunting, Act Of Play

Radicals

塞

Decomposition

⿱莫巾

Etymology

Pictophonetic: curtain

Writing Practice

Stroke 0 / 13

Stroke Order

1 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left
2 vertical right-to-left
3 vertical right-to-left
4 vertical bottom-right-to-top-left
5 corner bottom-right-to-top-left
6 horizontal bottom-to-top
7 horizontal bottom-to-top
8 horizontal bottom-to-top
9 diagonal top-right-to-bottom-left
10 diagonal bottom-right-to-top-left
11 vertical bottom-right-to-top-left
12 hook bottom-to-top
13 vertical bottom-right-to-top-left
On'yomi (Chinese reading)
バク baku
マク maku
Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)
とばり tobari

Words Using This Kanji

133 words total
Other (20 words)
統合幕僚監部 とうごうばくりょうかんぶ

Joint Staff Office

幕にする まくにする

to bring to an end

幕になる まくになる

to come to an end

日本語字幕 にほんごじまく

Japanese subtitles

遮光幕 しゃこうまく

blackout curtain

朝幕 ちょうばく

imperial-shogunal (e.g. relations, etc.)

定式幕 じょうしきまく

kabuki curtain, usu. of three coloured panels

三幕構成 さんまくこうせい

three-act structure (in screenwriting: setup, confrontation, resolution)

幕を下ろす まくをおろす

to lower the curtain (at the end of a play)

幕板 まくいた

screening panel (desk, etc.)

倒幕運動 とうばくうんどう

movement to overthrow the shogunate (mid-19th century)

花の幕 はなのまく

curtains hung (from trees or poles) during a flower-viewing party

花見幕 はなみまく

curtains hung (from trees or poles) during a flower-viewing party

幕が切って落とされる まくがきっておとされる

to begin grandly

汗蒸幕 ハンジュマク

hanjeungmak

弾幕シューティング だんまくシューティング

bullet hell (genre of shoot 'em ups)

開幕投手 かいまくとうしゅ

opening-game pitcher

外幕 とまく

outer curtain (in a military encampment)

幕府領 ばくふりょう

land under the direct control of the shogunate

幕領 ばくりょう

land under the direct control of the shogunate