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棉
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Translingual
Han character
棉 (Kangxi radical 75, 木+8, 12 strokes, cangjie input 木竹日月 (DHAB), four-corner 46927, composition ⿰木帛)
References
- Kangxi Dictionary: page 531, character 24
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14919
- Dae Jaweon: page 920, character 8
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1234, character 3
- Unihan data for U+68C9
Chinese
Glyph origin
Variant of 綿 by replacing 糸 with 木 (裘錫圭：《文字學概要（修訂本）》, p222).
Etymology
Attested late, in Tang dynasty; unless Shijing’s 綿蠻 (OC *men mroːn, “tiny, delicate”) (according to Mao Commentary) is derived from "cotton" (Schuessler, 2007).
Etymology unclear, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan (Schuessler, 2007)? Tibetan བལ། (bal) is cognate to either this or 蟠 (OC *baːn, *ban, “to coil, to curl”) (ibid.).
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- Cantonese
- Hakka
- Jin (Wiktionary): mie1
- Northern Min (KCR): mîng
- Eastern Min (BUC): mièng
- Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): ming2 / meng2
- Southern Min
- Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): 6mi
- Xiang (Changsha, Wiktionary): mienn2
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin: mián
- Zhuyin: ㄇㄧㄢˊ
- Tongyong Pinyin: mián
- Wade–Giles: mien2
- Yale: myán
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: mian
- Palladius: мянь (mjanʹ)
- Sinological IPA (key): /mi̯ɛn³⁵/
- (Chengdu)
- Sichuanese Pinyin: mian2
- Scuanxua Ladinxua Xin Wenz: mian
- Sinological IPA (key): /miɛn²¹/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Jyutping: min4
- Yale: mìhn
- Cantonese Pinyin: min4
- Guangdong Romanization: min4
- Sinological IPA (key): /miːn²¹/
- (Taishanese, Taicheng)
- Wiktionary: men3
- Sinological IPA (key): /ᵐben²²/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: mièn
- Hakka Romanization System: mienˇ
- Hagfa Pinyim: mian2
- Sinological IPA: /mi̯en¹¹/
- (Hailu, incl. Zhudong)
- Hakka Romanization System: mien
- Sinological IPA: /mien⁵⁵/
- (Meixian)
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
- Jin
- (Taiyuan)+
- Wiktionary: mie1
- Sinological IPA (old-style): /mie¹¹/
- (Taiyuan)+
- Northern Min
- (Jian'ou)
- Kienning Colloquial Romanized: mîng
- Sinological IPA (key): /miŋ³³/
- (Jian'ou)
- Eastern Min
- (Fuzhou)
- Bàng-uâ-cê: mièng
- Sinological IPA (key): /mieŋ⁵³/
- (Fuzhou)
- Puxian Min
- (Putian, Jiangkou, Nanri)
- Pouseng Ping'ing: ming2
- Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: míng
- Sinological IPA (key): /miŋ¹³/
- (Xianyou, Youyang, Fengting)
- Pouseng Ping'ing: ming2
- Sinological IPA (key): /miŋ²⁴/
- (Putian, Jiangkou)
- Pouseng Ping'ing: meng2
- Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: méng
- Sinological IPA (key): /mɛŋ¹³/
- (Nanri)
- Pouseng Ping'ing: meng2
- Sinological IPA (key): /me̞ŋ¹³/
- (Xianyou, Youyang, Fengting)
- Pouseng Ping'ing: meng2
- Sinological IPA (key): /mɛŋ²⁴/
- (Putian, Jiangkou, Nanri)
Note:
- ming2 - vernacular;
- meng2 - literary.
- Southern Min
- mî - vernacular;
- biân - literary.
- (Teochew)
- Peng'im: mi5 / miang5 / miêng5
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: mî / miâng / miêng
- Sinological IPA (key): /mi⁵⁵/, /miaŋ⁵⁵/, /mieŋ⁵⁵/
- (Teochew)
Note:
Note: miang5/miêng5 - used in place names (miêng5 - Chaozhou).
- Dialectal data
- Middle Chinese: mjien
- Old Chinese
- (Zhengzhang): /*men/
Definitions
棉
- kapok (tree, fiber)
- 木棉 ― mùmián ― kapok
- cotton (tree, fiber)
- 樹棉／树棉 ― shùmián ― Gossypium hirsutum (tree cotton)
- 棉衣 ― miányī ― cotton-padded clothing
- cotton-like material
- 石棉 ― shímián ― asbestos
- a surname, Mian
Synonyms
- (cotton):
Compounds
- 原棉
- 四兩棉花 / 四两棉花
- 大陸棉 / 大陆棉
- 岩棉
- 摘棉花
- 木棉 (mùmián)
- 木棉花
- 棉婚
- 棉布 (miánbù)
- 棉布婚
- 棉手籠 / 棉手笼
- 棉桃 (miántáo)
- 棉條 / 棉条 (miántiáo)
- 棉猴兒 / 棉猴儿
- 棉球
- 棉田
- 棉籽 (miánzǐ)
- 棉紡 / 棉纺 (miánfǎng)
- 棉紙 / 棉纸
- 棉紗 / 棉纱 (miánshā)
- 棉絮 (miánxù)
- 棉線 / 棉线 (miánxiàn)
- 棉織品 / 棉织品
- 棉纖維 / 棉纤维
- 棉花
- 棉花嘴
- 棉花火藥 / 棉花火药
- 棉花糖 (miánhuātáng)
- 棉花絨 / 棉花绒
- 棉花耳朵
- 棉花胎 (miánhuātāi)
- 棉薄之力
- 棉蘭老 / 棉兰老 (Miánlánlǎo)
- 棉袍
- 棉被 (miánbèi)
- 棉被窩 / 棉被窝
- 棉襖 / 棉袄 (mián'ǎo)
- 棉襪 / 棉袜
- 棉都
- 棉鈴 / 棉铃 (miánlíng)
- 泡棉 (pàomián)
- 班迭棉吉 (Bāndié Miánjí)
- 皮棉
- 石棉 (shímián)
- 石棉瓦
- 石棉症
- 紅棉 / 红棉 (hóngmián)
- 純棉 / 纯棉 (chúnmián)
- 紡棉花 / 纺棉花
- 絲光棉 / 丝光棉
- 絲棉 / 丝棉 (sīmián)
- 脫脂棉 / 脱脂棉
- 草棉 (cǎomián)
- 藥棉 / 药棉
- 軋棉 / 轧棉 (yàmián)
- 高棉 (Gāomián)
References
- “棉”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database), 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
- “棉”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2025.
- “棉”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2025.
- 李如龙 [Li, Ru-long]; 刘福铸 [Liu, Fu-zhu]; 吴华英 [Wu, Hua-ying]; 黄国城 [Huang, Guo-cheng] (2019), “棉”, in 莆仙方言调查报告 [Investigation Report on Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 212.
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Japanese
Kanji
棉
Readings
Usage notes
This is a non-standard variant in Japanese for the character 綿. Note the difference in radical: 棉 has the 木 or tree radical, while 綿 has the 糸 or thread radical.
Korean
Hanja
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Vietnamese
Han character
棉: Hán Nôm readings: miên
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