Kanji

Stroke count: 8

Meaning: measuring box, (kokuji)

Kunyomi: ます

Onyomi:

Composition:

Radical

Radical:

Meaning: tree

Examples

Kunyomi Examples

ます measuring container, measure, box (seating at a theatre, etc.), square on a grid, cell of a grid, square bearing block (at the top of a pillar)

升売り ますうり selling something by the boxful (in a wooden masu box)

さかます masu container for drinking or measuring sake

とます 18-litre measuring container