counter for thin, flat objects; sheet; plate; coin
The everyday counter for flat things such as paper, tickets, plates, cards, photos, coins, and similar sheet-like objects.
紙を三枚コピーしてください。
Please make three copies of the paper.
I bought two tickets.
I bought one ticket.
serving of soba; portion of gyōza
Restaurant and food-counting use for one portion or tray/plate of certain foods, especially soba; gyōza may also be counted this way in some ordering contexts.
もりそばを二枚ください。
Two servings of mori soba, please.
sumo rank position; wrestler at a given rank
Sumo jargon for positions on the ranking sheet, and by extension the wrestlers occupying those positions, as in 前頭三枚目.
相撲では、前頭三枚目のように番付上の位置を枚で表す。
In sumo, positions on the ranking sheet are expressed with mai, as in maegashira number three.
field; rice paddy plot
Used to count individual flat plots of farmland, especially rice paddies; most natural with words such as 田, 田んぼ, and 畑.
祖父は山あいに田んぼを三枚持っている。
My grandfather has three rice paddies in a mountain valley.
Archaic or historical counter for palanquin bearers; not a productive modern counting use.
古い用法では、「駕籠かき二枚」のように担ぎ手を枚で数えた。
In older usage, bearers could be counted with mai, as in 'two palanquin bearers.'
昼にそばを二枚食べた。
I had two servings of soba for lunch.
This tournament, he is ranked at front-row position three.
There are ten rice paddies in this village.
I took five photos on the trip.
枚 is the general-purpose counter for flat objects like paper or plates, while 張 is reserved for things that are stretched or spread out, such as bows, kotos, or curtains.
枚 is the general counter for flat objects like paper or plates, while 片 specifically counts small broken-off fragments or petals rather than whole items.
枚 is the general counter for flat objects like paper or plates, while 葉 is a more literary counter used specifically for leaves and sheet-like items such as photographs.
個 is the all-purpose counter for discrete objects, while 枚 is reserved for flat, sheet-like things like paper or plates.
本 counts long, thin objects such as pencils or bottles, whereas 枚 counts flat objects such as paper or coins.
皿 counts platefuls of food or the dishes themselves in everyday speech, while 枚 counts the physical plate as a flat object and, in some food contexts, servings like soba.
Standard kanji form for the counter まい, especially after numerals such as 一枚, 二枚, and 三枚.
A Sino-Japanese-style counter written with 枚 and read まい. The spelling is conventionally associated with counting flat pieces or sheets; no more specific historical derivation is specified.