mián
cotton wad
A continuous thread 糹 of silk 帛
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 綿
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
sponge (zoology) | ||
sheep | ||
touching (emotions) | ||
soft | ||
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。” |
Sources
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