音読み: カン・ケン
訓読み: まく・まき
画数: 9
部首: 㔾（わりふ）
Meaning
Roll / Scroll / Volume
- Basic forms
- 巻く — roll; wrap; wind / base form
- 巻きます — roll; wrap / masu form
- 巻いた — rolled; wrapped / ta form
- 巻いて — rolling … / te form
- 巻かない — do not roll; do not wrap / negative
- 巻けば — if (one) rolls; if (one) wraps / conditional
- 巻け — roll it!; wrap it! / imperative
- Common expressions
- 紙を巻く — roll paper
- タオルを巻く — wrap with a towel
- 包帯を巻く — wrap a bandage
- More
- 巻かれる — be rolled; be wrapped / passive
- 巻いている — is rolling; is wrapped / state
巻く（まく） is a godan transitive verb. It means to roll, wind, or wrap something around an object, and is used in both everyday actions and figurative expressions.
- 圧巻 — highlight / climax
- 席巻 — sweeping over / conquest
- 巻物 — scroll / rolled document
- 全巻 — complete set of volumes
- 巻く — to roll up / to wind
- 巻き寿司 — sushi roll
- 巻 — volume (in a book series)
- 巻き添え — to be caught up in / dragged into
巻 originally represented wrapping or coiling. Today it appears in both physical and figurative senses — from sushi rolls and book scrolls to expressions like 巻き込まれる (to be dragged into something).
髪を 巻いて パーティーに行きました。
I curled my hair and went to the party.
このマンガは 全五巻です。
This manga has five volumes in total.
全巻 — complete set of volumes