綿

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

• KangXi: 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

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

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. (obsolete) Alternative form of 棉 (mián, “cotton”).

• “Entry #10784”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (in Chinese and Min Nan), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2011.

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

• Go-on: めん (men, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: べん (ben)
• Kun: わた (wata, 綿, Jōyō)
• Nanori: う (u)

綿 (men, wata): raw cotton on the bush.

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

• On’yomi: Kan’on
• (Tokyo) め​ん [méꜜǹ] (Atamadaka – [1])[1]
• IPA^(key): [mẽ̞ɴ]

綿(めん) • (men) 

1. cotton (both the fiber and the cloth)

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”).

• 木綿(もめん) (momen)

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

• (both rare) 棉, 草綿

• Kun’yomi
• (Tokyo) わた​ [wàtáꜜ] (Odaka – [2])[1]
• IPA^(key): [ɰᵝa̠ta̠]

綿(わた) • (wata) 

1. the cotton plant
2. raw cotton
3. batting or stuffing
4. the albedo of a citrus; or the pith 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

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”).

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

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