綿 — cotton

めん綿 cotton

Grade 5 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 14 strokes

U+7DBF Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #1495 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #1467 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

cotton

word

めん men On'yomi On'yomi (音読み) — the Sino-Japanese reading, derived from Chinese pronunciation. Most commonly used in compound words (jukugo).

綿(めん) men cotton 綿(めん) 密(みつ) menmitsu meticulous

わた wata Kun'yomi Kun'yomi (訓読み) — the native Japanese reading of this kanji. Used when the kanji appears alone or with okurigana (trailing hiragana).

石(いし) 綿(わた) ishiwata asbestos

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

いと糸 thread #120

帛 white silk

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Kangxi Radical The Kangxi radicals are a set of 214 character components standardized in the 1716 Kangxi Dictionary. Every kanji is classified under one radical, used for dictionary lookup and character organization.

#120 糸 thread