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.
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.
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.
Archaic or historical counter for palanquin bearers; not a productive modern counting use.
I bought two tickets.
Please make three copies of the paper.
I bought one ticket.
In sumo, positions on the ranking sheet are expressed with mai, as in maegashira number three.
My grandfather has three rice paddies in a mountain valley.
In older usage, bearers could be counted with mai, as in 'two palanquin bearers.'
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.