Jisho

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綿

14 strokes
Radical:
silk 糸 (糹)
Parts:
cotton
Kun:
わた
On:
メン
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 5
JLPT level N2
1495 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 綿 【メン】 cotton
  • 綿密 【メンミツ】 minute, detailed, careful, scrupulous, thorough
  • 石灰海綿 【セッカイカイメン】 calcareous sponge (any sponge of class Calcarea)
  • 六放海綿 【ロッポウカイメン】 hexactinellid sponge, glass sponge (any sponge of class Hexactinellida)

Kun reading compounds

  • 綿 【わた】 cotton plant (Gossypium spp.), batting, wadding, padding
  • 海神 【かいじん】 sea god, Poseidon, Neptune, sea, ocean
  • 結い綿 【ゆいわた】 traditional hairstyle worn by unmarried women
  • 中綿 【なかわた】 padding (clothing or bedding), insulation, cotton wadding, stuffing (furniture)

Readings

Japanese names:
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
mian2
Korean:
myeon

Spanish

  • algodón
  • prolongado
  • minucioso

Portuguese

  • Algodão

French

  • coton
725 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
818 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
798 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
854 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3566 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
822 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
2538 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1191 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1251 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
881 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1544 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1736 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
929 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1254 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1379 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
27592 Morohashi
1373 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4531 New Nelson (John Haig)
1367 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1467 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
803 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2744 2001 Kanji
6a8.8 The Kanji Dictionary
1-6-8 SKIP code
2692.7 Four corner code
1-44-42 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
7dbf Unicode hex code

12 strokes
Radical:
insect
Parts:
Variants:
barbarian
Kun:
えびす
On:
バン
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
2339 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 蛮勇 【バンユウ】 foolhardiness, recklessness, savage valour, savage valor, brute courage
  • 蛮行 【バンコウ】 act of barbarity, barbarism, brutality, savagery
  • 南蛮 【ナンバン】 southern barbarians (name used in ancient China for non-Chinese ethnic groups to the south), South-East Asian countries (in the late-Muromachi and Edo periods), Western Europe (esp. Spain and Portugal and their South-East Asian colonies; late-Muromachi and Edo periods), foreign (of goods from South-East Asia and Western Europe), exotic (esp. in a Western European or South-East Asian style), chili pepper, nanban, dish prepared using chili peppers and Welsh onions, thrusting the right foot and right arm forward at the same time (or left foot and left arm; in kabuki, dance, puppetry, etc.)
  • 生蕃 【セイバン】 unconquered savage, uncivilized aboriginal, aboriginal Taiwanese tribes outside Qing China's jurisdiction

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
man2
Korean:
man

Spanish

  • bárbaro
  • extranjero
  • violento

Portuguese

  • bárbaro

French

  • barbare
1722 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1894 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
322 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1390 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1718 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1879 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
2044 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1825 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1609 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2638 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1347 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1827 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1763 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
33044 Morohashi
2129 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
5314 New Nelson (John Haig)
1747 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1884 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1580 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
471 2001 Kanji
2j10.1 The Kanji Dictionary
2-2-10 SKIP code
2-6-6 SKIP code
0013.6 Four corner code
1-40-58 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
86ee Unicode hex code