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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for:

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
mián - generic term for cotton or kapok
- cotton
- padded or quilted with cotton

List Ranking:

Where rank 1 is most common, and higher numbers are less common.

HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
- 6 7,430 3,210 1,868

Character Breakdown:

Decomposition:

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Type:

Ideographic

Hint:

Silk 帛 picked off a tree 木

Other Words Containing

Sorted by the 'SUBTLEX-CH' rank because that seems like the most reliable. Words without a SUBTLEX-CH rank are ignored for being too rare.

Word HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
- 6 7,430 3,210 1,868
棉花 5 7 7,793 4,462 6,799
石棉 - - 15,162 39,588 66,077
卫生棉 - - 18,070 85,444 44,893
棉布 - - 24,794 22,023 27,797
高棉 - - 27,674 38,075 40,261
棉被 - - 39,018 17,180 11,769
棉纱 - - 46,994 31,315 62,144
棉絮 - - 49,506 44,800 41,383
棉裤 - - 53,153 31,820 13,148
棉衣 - - 63,763 9,643 3,655
纯棉 - - 65,155 - -
棉线 - - 66,015 63,796 38,576
棉袄 - - 73,856 16,918 7,213
脱脂棉 - - 81,981 98,297 65,548
棉田 - - 90,561 27,313 -