棉

棉 (Kangxi radical 75, 木+8, 12 strokes, cangjie input 木竹日月 (DHAB), four-corner 4692₇, composition ⿰木帛)

• KangXi: page 531, character 24
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14919
• Dae Jaweon: page 920, character 8
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1234, character 3
• Unihan data for U+68C9

Attested late, in Tang dynasty; unless Shijing’s 綿蠻 (OC *men mroːn, “tiny, delicate”) (according to Mao Commentary) is derived from "cotton" (Schuessler, 2007).

Etymology unclear, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan (Schuessler, 2007)? Tibetan བལ། (bal) is cognate to either this or 蟠 (OC *baːn, *ban, “to coil, to curl”) (ibid.).

棉

1. kapok (tree, fiber)

   木棉  ―  mùmián  ―  kapok

2. cotton (tree, fiber)

   樹棉／树棉  ―  shùmián  ―  Gossypium hirsutum (tree cotton)

   棉衣  ―  miányī  ―  cotton-padded clothing

   • 清源郡……西至棉田村二百八十五里。 [Literary Chinese, trad. and simp.]

     From: Du You, Tongdian, 766 – 801 CE

     Qīngyuán jùn...... Xī zhì Miántián cūn èrbǎi bāshí wǔ lǐ. [Pinyin]

     Qingyuan commandery: [...], 285-li away from the Cotton-Field hamlet to the west.

3. cotton-like material

   石棉  ―  shímián  ―  asbestos

4. a surname: Mian

• (cotton): 棉花 (miánhuā)

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. cotton
2. batting, stuffing

• Go-on: めん (men)
• Kan-on: べん (ben)
• Kun: わた (wata, 棉)

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.

棉 (eum 면 (myeon))

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棉: Hán Nôm readings: miên

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