音読み: カン・ケン
訓読み: まく・まき
画数: 9
部首: おのれ（己）
わりふ（㔾）
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
This kanji is commonly classified under the radical 己（おのれ） in modern Japanese education. However, in traditional dictionaries it was often classified under 㔾（わりふ）. Before the postwar script reforms, the lower part of 巻 was written differently, closer to 㔾 rather than 己. Because of this change in character form, both classifications exist today. Understanding this helps us see how kanji classification can evolve over time.