綿

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See also: 绵
綿 U+7DBF, 綿
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7DBF
← 綾
[U+7DBE] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 緀 →
[U+7DC0]

Translingual[edit]

Han character[edit]

綿 (Kangxi radical 120, 糸+8, 14 strokes, cangjie input 女火竹日月 (VFHAB), four-corner 26927, composition ⿰糹帛)

References[edit]

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 928, character 17
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27592
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1366, character 6
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3416, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+7DBF

Chinese[edit]

trad. 綿
simp. 绵
alternative forms 緜

Glyph origin[edit]

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

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 糸 + 帛 (“silk”).

Pronunciation[edit]

Note:
  • mî - vernacular;
  • biân - literary.
Note:
  • miang5/miêng5 - literary (miêng5 - Chaozhou);
  • min5 - vernacular.
Rime
Character 綿
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/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/mi̯ɛn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		mián
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		min4
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 綿
Reading # 1/1
No. 9048
Phonetic
component 		綿
Rime
group 		元
Rime
subdivision 		2
Corresponding
MC rime 		緜
Old
Chinese 		/*men/
Notes 同緜

Definitions[edit]

綿

  1. silk floss
    絲綿／丝绵  ―  sīmián  ―  silk floss
  2. to continue; to be continuous
    連綿／连绵  ―  liánmián  ―  continuous
    綿亙／绵亘  ―  miángèn  ―  to stretch in an unbroken chain
  3. soft; weak
    綿軟／绵软  ―  miánruǎn  ―  soft
    綿力／绵力  ―  miánlì  ―  (my) meagre effort
  4. (dialectal, obsolete) to apply; to cover
  5. (obsolete) Alternative form of 棉 (mián, “cotton”)

Compounds[edit]

References[edit]

Japanese[edit]

Kanji[edit]

綿

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Japanese Wikipedia has an article on:
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綿 (men, wata): raw cotton on the bush.
Kanji in this term
綿
めん
Grade: 5
on’yomi

From Middle Chinese 綿／绵 (miɛn, “wool; cotton; soft, downy”).

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

綿(めん) • (men) 

  1. cotton (both the fiber and the cloth)
Usage notes[edit]

As a standalone noun, the term 木綿 (momen, “cotton”, literally “tree or bush + woolly batting”) is used more often. This is especially true in speech, to avoid ambiguity with the various homophones, such as 面 (men, “face”) or 麺 (men, “noodle”).

Synonyms[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

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Kanji in this term
綿
わた
Grade: 5
kun’yomi

From Old Japanese, from Proto-Japonic *wata. Cognate with Okinawan 綿 (wata).

Originally referred to any batting or stuffing, which was generally unspun silk. The meaning shifted after the spread of cotton in the Muromachi period.

Alternative forms[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

綿(わた) • (wata) 

  1. the cotton plant
  2. raw cotton
  3. batting or stuffing
  4. the albedo of a citrus; or the pith/placenta of a pepper
    Synonym: アルベド (arubedo, “albedo”)
  5. (figurative) the state of being exhausted or extremely tired (likely from the hard work required to pick cotton)
    綿(わた)のように疲(つか)れた
    wata no yō ni tsukareta
    to be as tired as cotton → to be exhausted
Derived terms[edit]
Derived terms

References[edit]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean[edit]

Hanja[edit]

綿 (eumhun 이어질 면 (ieojil myeon))

  1. Hanja form? of 면 (“cotton wad”).
  2. Hanja form? of 면 (“wool”).
  3. Hanja form? of 면 (“soft, downy”).

Vietnamese[edit]

Han character[edit]

綿: Hán Nôm readings: miên, men, mền, mên, min

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