綿

mián

cotton wad

A continuous thread  of silk 

Components
糹 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

silk

帛 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

silks

Evolution

綿 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
綿 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
綿 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

(綿) 

mián

cotton wad; wool; soft, downy; silk floss; continuous; soft; weak; mild-mannered (dialect)

Most common words with 綿
Freq.
Word
Meaning

海绵

sponge (zoology)

绵羊

sheep

缠绵

touching (emotions)

soft

绵绵

continuous

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 4.6452% of movies

2453rd most common character in movies

2186th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

14

Simplified

Unicode

U+7DBF

Shuowen

“緜,聯微也。从糸,从帛。”


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