幕 means “curtain, act, shogunate”

まく · maku

Also: bunting, act of play

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading): とばり
On'yomi (Chinese reading): マク, バク

JLPT N1 · Taught in grade 6 · 13 strokes

The story

Cloth (巾) hung beneath 莫, the sun sinking into the grass: a curtain falling as the light goes. Generals once ruled from curtained field camps, so their government was the 幕府, the shogunate; today 幕 rises on a season (開幕) and runs along the screen as 字幕.

Used in 字幕 (jimaku, subtitles), 開幕 (kaimaku, opening/curtain-raising), and 幕府 (bakufu, shogunate)

幕 means “curtain, act, shogunate”

The story

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