Kanji1 / 13
幕 kanji
curtain, bunting, act of play
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N3 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 13
- School grade
- Grade 6 (elementary school)
On readings
マクバク
Kun readings
とばり
Words with 幕
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —一幕物one-act play
- —引き幕draw curtain; stage curtain
- —下げ幕drop curtain
- —三幕物three-act play
- —除幕式unveiling ceremony
- —内幕話inside information
- —幕開きrise of the curtain; opening of a play; beginning (e.g. of an era); start; opening (of a tournament, festival, etc.)
- —幕の内box lunch (containing rice and 10-15 small portions of fish, meat, and vegetables); makunouchi; makuuchi; top division (of professional sumo); intermission (between acts); interlude
- —幕引きputting an end to; bringing to a close; person who opens and closes the curtains (in a theatre)
- —映写幕(projection) screen
- —開幕戦opening game; (season) opener
- —幕内格referee officiating at bouts of rank-and-file wrestlers in the highest division
- —幕下格referee officiating the third highest division
- —新入幕wrestler newly promoted to makuuchi division
- —再入幕wrestler re-promoted to makuuchi division
- —水引幕purple curtain on the hanging roof above the ring
- —切り幕entrance curtain
- —字幕版subtitled version (of a movie)
- —背景幕backdrop (at the back of a stage); backcloth
- —遮光幕blackout curtain; light-blocking curtain; lampshade; shade