～枚
～まい · ～mai · JLPT N5 · noun
counter for flat objects
📄 mai = my: my one sheet, my two tickets — count flat things with mai
枚 = 木 (wood) + 攵 (strike): originally a thin strip of wood, so it came to count anything thin and flat. Paper, plates, shirts, stamps, CDs and tickets all take まい: 一枚 ichi-mai, 二枚 ni-mai.
枚 — wood 木 + strike 攵
枚 combines 木 (tree/wood) with 攵 (a hand holding a stick), originally depicting a small wooden stick or twig broken from a tree. From this concrete sense it became a measure word for small, slender objects like coins, badges, or pins. The stick meaning is largely archaic today.