棉 U+68C9, 棉 ← 棈[U+68C8] CJK Unified Ideographs 棊 →[U+68CA]
棉 (Kangxi radical 75, 木+8, 12 strokes, Cangjie input 木竹日月 (DHAB), four-corner 46927, composition ⿰木帛)
- 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
simp. and trad. 棉 alternative forms 檰／𰘣㮌𣏜
Variant of 綿 by replacing 糸 with 木 (裘錫圭：《文字學概要（修訂本）》, p222).
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.).
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
- 清源郡……西至棉田村二百八十五里。 [Literary Chinese, trad. and simp.]From: Du You, Tongdian, 766 – 801 CEQīngyuán jùn…… Xī zhì Miántián cūn èrbǎi bāshí wǔ lǐ. [Pinyin]Qingyuan commandery: […], 285-li away from the Cotton-Field hamlet to the west.
- cotton-like material 石棉 ― shímián ― asbestos
- a surname, Mian
- (cotton):
- “棉”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)[1], 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., 2026.
- “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., 2026.
- 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.
(Hyōgai kanji)
- cotton
- batting, stuffing
- Go-on: めん (men)
- Kan-on: べん (ben)
- Kun: わた (wata, 棉)
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.
- “▲棉”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia][2] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015-2026
棉 (eum 면 (myeon))
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棉: Hán Nôm readings: miên
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