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幕
Grade Level: 6
JLPT Level: 1
Frequency: 835
Bushu (Radical) Info: 巾 (はば) cloth 艾 (カイ, ゲイ, もぐさ, よもぎ, おさ.める, か.る) moxa; sagebrush; wormwood; mugwort 艸 (ソウ, くさ, くさかんむり, そうこう) grass; plants
Henshall Mnemonic: big curtain of threaded grass shades out sun
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Stroke Order Diagram (SOD): 13 Strokes

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On-Yomi Reading(s):
マク
バク
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Kun-Yomi Reading(s):
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English Meaning(s):
curtain
bunting
act of play
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- 一幕 [ひとまく]
(n) one act [K] [D]
- 横断幕 [おうだんまく]
(n) banner strung across a street [K] [D]
- 開幕 [かいまく]
(n) raising the curtain [K] [D]
- 黒幕 [くろまく]
(n) black curtain; wire puller; political fixer [K] [D]
- 字幕 [じまく]
(n) title; subtitle [K] [D]
- 序幕 [じょまく]
(n) curtain-raiser; prologue [K] [D]
- 垂れ幕 [たれまく]
(n) hanging screen; curtain [K] [D]
- 内幕 [うちまく]
(n) lowdown; inside curtain; inside information; hidden circumstances; inside facts; inner workings; undisclosed circumstances [K] [D]
- 内幕 [ないまく]
(n) lowdown; inside curtain; inside information; hidden circumstances; inside facts; inner workings; undisclosed circumstances [K] [D]
- 入幕 [にゅうまく]
(n) advancing to the first grade [K] [D]
- 平幕 [ひらまく]
(n) rank-and-file wrestlers in sumo's highest division [K] [D]
- 閉幕 [へいまく]
(n) falling of the curtain [K] [D]
- 幕 [とばり]
curtain; bunting; act (in play) [K] [D]
- 幕下 [まくした]
(n) junior class sumo wrestler or division [K] [D]
- 幕開け [まくあけ]
(n) beginning; opening (of play) [K] [D]
- 幕切れ [まくぎれ]
(n) fall of the curtain; last scene; end of act [K] [D]
- 幕内 [まくうち]
(n) highest rank in sumo [K] [D]
- 幕府 [ばくふ]
(n) bakufu; shogunate [K] [D]
- 幕末 [ばくまつ]
(n) closing days of the Tokugawa shogunate; end of Edo era [K] [D]
- 幕僚 [ばくりょう]
(n) staff; staff officer [K] [D]
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