幕まく内うち

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Meanings

makuuchi; top sumo division

The highest division in professional sumo, above juryo. The term is used both as a division name and to refer to wrestlers in that division.

〈人ひと〉が幕まく内うちに昇しょう進しんするfor a wrestler to be promoted to the top division (makuuchi)
彼かれは来らい場ば所しょ、幕まく内うちに昇しょう進しんする。
He will be promoted to makuuchi next tournament.
〈人ひと〉が幕まく内うちから陥かん落らくするfor a wrestler to drop out of the top division
負まけ続つづけて幕まく内うちから陥かん落らくした。
After a string of losses, he dropped out of makuuchi.
幕まく内うちで優ゆう勝しょうするto win the championship in the top division
彼かれは初はじめて幕まく内うちで優ゆう勝しょうした。
He won the championship in makuuchi for the first time.

十じゅう両りょう
幕内 is the top sumo division while 十両 is the second-highest, one rank below it, so learners often mix up which is higher.
幕まくの内うち
幕内 is the standard modern word for the top sumo division, while 幕の内 usually means a boxed lunch (or, less commonly, the same division as an older term), so context decides the meaning.
入にゅう幕まく
幕内 names the top division itself, whereas 入幕 is the act or event of being promoted into that division.

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関せき取とり
幕内 names only the very top division of sumo, whereas 関取 also includes the second division (juryo), so not every 関取 is 幕内.
平ひら幕まく
幕内 names the entire top sumo division, while 平幕 refers only to the wrestlers in that division who hold no titled rank.
前まえ頭がしら
幕内 refers to the entire top sumo division, while 前頭 specifically means the wrestlers in that division who hold no titled rank.
幕まく下した
幕下 is a mid-level unsalaried sumo division, whereas 幕内 is the top division above juryo, so the two are easily confused as both contain 幕 in the name.

From 幕 (maku, 'curtain') + 内 (uchi, 'inside'), referring to the area inside the curtain where top-ranked wrestlers waited during tournaments.