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棉

棉 U+68C9, 棉
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-68C9
← 棈
[U+68C8] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 棊 →
[U+68CA]

Translingual

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Han character

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棉 (Kangxi radical 75, 木+8, 12 strokes, cangjie input 木竹日月 (DHAB), four-corner 46927, composition ⿰木帛)

References

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  • 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

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simp. and trad.
 棉
alternative forms 檰／𰘣
㮌
𣏜

Glyph origin

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Characters in the same phonetic series (綿) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
綿 *men
棉 *men
緜 *men
矊 *men

Variant of 綿 by replacing 糸 with 木 (裘錫圭：《文字學概要（修訂本）》, p222).

Etymology

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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

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Note:
  • biân - literary;
  • mî - vernacular.
Note: miang5/miêng5 - used in place names (miêng5 - Chaozhou).
  • Dialectal data
Variety Location 棉
Mandarin Beijing /mian³⁵/
Harbin /mian²⁴/
Tianjin /mian⁴⁵/
Jinan /miã⁴²/
Qingdao /miã⁴²/
Zhengzhou /mian⁴²/
Xi'an /miã²⁴/
Xining /miã²⁴/
Yinchuan /mian⁵³/
Lanzhou /miɛ̃n⁵³/
Ürümqi /mian⁵¹/
Wuhan /miɛn²¹³/
Chengdu /mian³¹/
Guiyang /mian²¹/
Kunming /miɛ̃³¹/
Nanjing /mien²⁴/
Hefei /miĩ⁵⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /mie¹¹/
Pingyao /mie̞¹³/
Hohhot /mie³¹/
Wu Shanghai /mi²³/
Suzhou /miɪ¹³/
Hangzhou /miẽ̞²¹³/
Wenzhou /mi³¹/
Hui Shexian /me⁴⁴/
Tunxi /miɛ⁴⁴/
Xiang Changsha /miẽ¹³/
Xiangtan /miẽ¹²/
Gan Nanchang /miɛn⁴⁵/
Hakka Meixian /mien¹¹/
Taoyuan /mein¹¹/
Cantonese Guangzhou /min²¹/
Nanning /min²¹/
Hong Kong /min²¹/
Min Xiamen (Hokkien) /bian³⁵/
/mi³⁵/
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /mieŋ⁵³/
Jian'ou (Northern Min) /miŋ³³/
Shantou (Teochew) /miaŋ⁵⁵/
/mĩ⁵⁵/
Haikou (Hainanese) /min³¹/
/mi³¹/
Rime
Character 棉
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 明 (4)
Final (韻) 仙 (77)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 武延切
Baxter mjien
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/miᴇn/
Pan
Wuyun 		/miɛn/
Shao
Rongfen 		/mjæn/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/mian/
Li
Rong 		/miɛn/
Wang
Li 		/mĭɛn/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/mi̯ɛn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		mián
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		min4
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 棉
Reading # 1/1
No. 9049
Phonetic
component 		綿
Rime
group 		元
Rime
subdivision 		2
Corresponding
MC rime 		緜
Old
Chinese 		/*men/
Notes 綿分化字

Definitions

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棉

  1. kapok (tree, fiber)
    木棉  ―  mùmián  ―  kapok
  2. cotton (tree, fiber)
    樹棉／树棉  ―  shùmián  ―  Gossypium hirsutum (tree cotton)
    棉衣  ―  miányī  ―  cotton-padded clothing
  3. cotton-like material
    石棉  ―  shímián  ―  asbestos
  4. a surname: Mian

Synonyms

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  • (cotton):
Dialectal synonyms of 棉花 (“cotton”) [map]
Variety Location Words
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 棉花
Northeastern Mandarin Beijing 棉花
Taiwan 棉花
Harbin 棉花
Jilu Mandarin Jinan 棉花
Jiaoliao Mandarin Yantai (Muping) 棉花
Central Plains Mandarin Luoyang 棉花, 花
Wanrong 棉花, 棉
Xi'an 棉花, 花
Xining 棉花
Xuzhou 棉花
Lanyin Mandarin Yinchuan 棉花
Lanzhou 棉花
Ürümqi 棉花
Southwestern Mandarin Chengdu 棉花
Wuhan 棉花
Liuzhou 棉花
Jianghuai Mandarin Nanjing 棉花
Yangzhou 棉花
Hefei 棉花
Cantonese Guangzhou 棉花
Hong Kong 棉花, 棉
Yangjiang 棉花
Gan Nanchang 棉花
Lichuan 棉花
Pingxiang 棉花
Hakka Meixian 棉花
Yudu 棉花
Miaoli (N. Sixian) 棉仔
Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian) 棉仔
Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu) 棉花, 棉仔
Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu) 棉
Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping) 棉仔
Miaoli (Zhuolan; Raoping) 棉仔
Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an) 棉花
Huizhou Jixi 棉花
Jin Taiyuan 棉花
Xinzhou 棉花
Northern Min Jian'ou 棉花
Eastern Min Fuzhou 棉花, 棉
Southern Min Xiamen 棉花
Quanzhou 棉花
Zhangzhou 棉花
Tainan 棉仔
Chaozhou 棉花
Leizhou 棉
Haikou 棉花
Southern Pinghua Nanning (Tingzi) 棉花
Wu Shanghai 棉花, 花
Shanghai (Chongming) 棉花
Suzhou 棉花
Danyang 棉花
Hangzhou 棉花
Ningbo 棉花, 花
Wenzhou 棉花
Jinhua 棉花
Xiang Changsha 棉花
Loudi 棉花
Shuangfeng 棉花

Compounds

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Japanese

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Kanji

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棉

(Hyōgai kanji)

  1. cotton
  2. batting, stuffing

Readings

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  • Go-on: めん (men)
  • Kan-on: べん (ben)
  • Kun: わた (wata, 棉)

Usage notes

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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 as the 糸 or thread radical.

Korean

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Hanja

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棉 (eum 면 (myeon))

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Vietnamese

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Han character

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棉: Hán Nôm readings: miên

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