绵 (mián): meaning and stroke order
绵 (mián) means silk floss, continuous, soft, weak, mild-mannered (dialect), old variant of 绵, cotton.
绵
- Simplified
- 绵
- Traditional
- 綿, 緜
- Pinyin
- mián
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Stroke order of 绵
绵
- mián silk floss; continuous
- mián old variant of 綿|绵[mian2]; cotton
- 11 strokes
- Traditional form: 綿
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Meaning of 绵
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mián
Traditional 綿
- silk floss
- continuous
- soft
- weak
- mild-mannered (dialect)
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mián
Traditional 緜
- old variant of 綿|绵[mian2]
- cotton
Radical and structure
- 绵
- Radical 纟 (Kangxi radical 120) in its simplified form · 11 strokes · 纟 on the left, 帛 on the right
Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.
Words with 绵
- 绵延 mián yán (esp. of a mountain range) to be continuous; to stretch long and unbroken
Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).