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枚

Flat Object Counter
Stroke count: 8

Readings

On readingマイ

Meanings

  1. flat Object Counter
  2. sheet of...
  3. counter for flat thin objects or sheets
  4. a sheet ofRtK
  1. counter for thin, flat objects (e.g. sheets of paper, plates, coins)
  2. counter for portions of gyōza or soba
  3. counter for ranks
  4. counter for wrestlers of a particular rank
  5. counter for fields or rice paddies

Synonyms

三枚

Homonyms

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Radicals and components

Radical木tree
Components
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Mnemonic (RtK)

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sheet of… · tree (木) · wood (木) · taskmaster

From "Remembering the Kanji" by James Heisig · Frame 354

Compound words

彼は秘書にコピーをもう1枚とらせた。まい
He had his secretary make another copy.tatoeba
彼は彼女に紙を1枚あげた。まい
He gave her a piece of paper.tatoeba
彼は箱にコインを何枚か入れた。まい
He put some coins in the box.tatoeba
彼は切手を500枚も集めた。まい
He has collected no fewer than five hundred stamps.tatoeba
彼は秘書にコピーをもう1枚とらせた。
He had his secretary make another copy.tatoeba
彼は彼女に紙を1枚あげた。
He gave her a piece of paper.tatoeba
彼は箱にコインを何枚か入れた。
He put some coins in the box.tatoeba
彼は切手を500枚も集めた。
He has collected no fewer than five hundred stamps.tatoeba

Real voices: how native speakers say it

These sentences were read aloud by real people — native Japanese speakers — for the open Mozilla Common Voice project. Listen to how a phrase sounds in real speech: the intonation, the pace, the way words run together. Two speakers mean two different people read it — compare them.

枚数も内容も不足しています
まいすうもないようもふそくしていますBoth the number and content are insufficient
少年はシャツ一枚になって、テーブルの縁に腰をかけ、
しょうねんはしゃついちまいになって、てーぶるのえんにこしをかけ、The boy, with nothing but a shirt on, sat on the edge of the table,
食パンは六枚切りか八枚か迷う
しょくぱんはろくまいぎりかはちまいかまようBread is a dilemma between six or eight slices.

Recordings and sentences: Mozilla Common Voice, CC0

Stroke Order

8 strokes

Counter for flat things. 木 (wood) + 攵 (hand) — thin boards being counted. 一枚 — one sheet.

Practice Writing

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