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棉
棉
Translingual
Han character
棉 (radical 75 木+8, 12 strokes, cangjie input 木竹日月 (DHAB), four-corner 46927, composition ⿰木帛)
References
- KangXi: page 531, character 24
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14919
- Dae Jaweon: page 920, character 8
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1234, character 3
- Unihan data for U+68C9
Chinese
|
simp. and trad. |
棉 | |
|---|---|---|
Glyph origin
| Characters in the same phonetic series (綿) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
|---|---|
| Old Chinese | |
| 綿 | *men |
| 棉 | *men |
| 緜 | *men |
| 矊 | *men |
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄇㄧㄢˊ
- Wade-Giles: mien2
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: mian
- IPA (key): /mi̯ɛn³⁵/
-
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: min4
- Yale: mìhn
- Cantonese Pinyin: min4
- IPA (key): /miːn²¹/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: mî
- Tâi-lô: mî
- Phofsit Daibuun: mii
- IPA (Xiamen): /mi²⁴/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /mi²⁴/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /mi¹³/
- IPA (Taipei): /mi²⁴/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /mi²³/
- (Hokkien)
- 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 (Min Nan) |
/bian³⁵/ /mi³⁵/ |
| Fuzhou (Min Dong) | /mieŋ⁵³/ | |
| Jian'ou (Min Bei) | /miŋ³³/ | |
| Shantou (Min Nan) |
/miaŋ⁵⁵/ /mĩ⁵⁵/ |
|
| Haikou (Min Nan) |
/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 |
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/miᴇn/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/miɛn/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/mjæn/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/mian/ |
| Li Rong |
/miɛn/ |
| Wang Li |
/mĭɛn/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/mi̯ɛn/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
mián |
| 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 |
Noun
棉
Adjective
棉
- Made of cotton.
- Padded with cotton.
Compounds
- 棉花糖 (miánhuātáng)
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 as the 糸 or thread radical.
Korean
Hanja
棉 • (myeon) (hangeul 면, revised myeon, McCune-Reischauer myŏn, Yale myen)
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Vietnamese
Han character
- Hán Việt: miên
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