棉花

Chinese

		cotton	flower; blossom; to spend flower; blossom; to spend; fancy pattern
trad. (棉花)		棉	花
simp. ^#(棉花)		棉	花

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Standard)
(Pinyin): miánhuā, miánhua

(Zhuyin): ㄇㄧㄢˊ ㄏㄨㄚ, ㄇㄧㄢˊ ˙ㄏㄨㄚ

(Chengdu, Sichuanese Pinyin): mian² hua¹
Cantonese (Jyutping): min⁴ faa¹
Hakka
(Sixian, PFS): mièn-fâ

(Hailu, HRS): mien fa^ˋ

(Meixian, Guangdong): miên² fa¹
Jin (Wiktionary): mie¹ hua¹
Eastern Min (BUC): mièng-huă
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): ming² hua¹
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): mî-hoe / mî-hoa
Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁶mi-ho

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, standard in Mainland, standard in Taiwan)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: miánhuā
  - Zhuyin: ㄇㄧㄢˊ ㄏㄨㄚ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: miánhua
  - Wade–Giles: mien²-hua¹
  - Yale: myán-hwā
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: mianhua
  - Palladius: мяньхуа (mjanʹxua)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /mi̯ɛn³⁵ xu̯ä⁵⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, standard in Mainland, variant in Taiwan)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: miánhua
  - Zhuyin: ㄇㄧㄢˊ ˙ㄏㄨㄚ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: miánhuå
  - Wade–Giles: mien²-hua⁵
  - Yale: myán-hwa
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: mian.hua
  - Palladius: мяньхуа (mjanʹxua)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /mi̯ɛn³⁵ xu̯ä³/
- (Chengdu)
  - Sichuanese Pinyin: mian² hua¹
  - Scuanxua Ladinxua Xin Wenz: mianxua
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /miɛn²¹ xua⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: min⁴ faa¹
  - Yale: mìhn fā
  - Cantonese Pinyin: min⁴ faa¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: min⁴ fa¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /miːn²¹ faː⁵⁵/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: mièn-fâ
  - Hakka Romanization System: mien^ˇ fa^ˊ
  - Hagfa Pinyim: mian² fa¹
  - Sinological IPA: /mi̯en¹¹ fa²⁴/
- (Hailu, incl. Zhudong)
  - Hakka Romanization System: mien fa^ˋ
  - Sinological IPA: /mien⁵⁵ fa⁵³/
- (Meixian)
  - Guangdong: miên² fa¹
  - Sinological IPA: /miɛn¹¹ fa⁴⁴/
Jin
- (Taiyuan)⁺
  - Wiktionary: mie¹ hua¹
  - Sinological IPA (old-style): /mie¹¹ xua¹¹/
Eastern Min
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: mièng-huă
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /mieŋ⁵³⁻⁵⁵ ^(h-)ŋua⁵⁵/
Puxian Min
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: ming² hua¹ [Phonetic: ming⁵ ngua¹]
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: míng-hua
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /miŋ¹³⁻¹¹ ^(h-)ŋua⁵³³/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: ming² hua¹ [Phonetic: ming⁵ ngua¹]
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /miŋ²⁴⁻²¹ ^(h-)ŋua⁵⁴⁴/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: mî-hoe
  - Tâi-lô: mî-hue
  - Phofsit Daibuun: mi'hoef
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /mĩ²³⁻³³ hue⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Taipei): /mĩ²⁴⁻¹¹ hue⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Xiamen): /mĩ²⁴⁻²² hue⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /mĩ²⁴⁻²² hue³³/
- (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: mî-hoa
  - Tâi-lô: mî-hua
  - Phofsit Daibuun: mi'hoaf
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /mĩ¹³⁻²² hua⁴⁴/
Wu
- (Northern: Shanghai)
  - Wugniu: ⁶mi-ho
  - MiniDict: mi^去 ho
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³mi-ho
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /mi²² ho⁴⁴/

Noun

棉花

cotton
彈棉花／弹棉花 ― tán miánhuā ― to fluff cotton

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 棉花 (“cotton”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		棉花
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	棉花
	Taiwan	棉花
	Harbin	棉花
Jilu Mandarin	Jinan	棉花
Jiaoliao Mandarin	Yantai (Muping)	棉花
Central Plains Mandarin	Luoyang	棉花, 花
	Wanrong	棉花, 棉
	Xi'an	棉花, 花
	Xining	棉花
	Xuzhou	棉花
Lanyin Mandarin	Yinchuan	棉花
	Lanzhou	棉花
	Ürümqi	棉花
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	棉花
	Wuhan	棉花
	Liuzhou	棉花
Jianghuai Mandarin	Nanjing	棉花
	Yangzhou	棉花
	Hefei	棉花
Cantonese	Guangzhou	棉花
	Hong Kong	棉花, 棉
	Yangjiang	棉花
Gan	Nanchang	棉花
	Lichuan	棉花
	Pingxiang	棉花
Hakka	Meixian	棉花
	Yudu	棉花
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	棉仔
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	棉仔
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	棉花, 棉仔
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	棉
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	棉仔
	Miaoli (Zhuolan; Raoping)	棉仔
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	棉花
Huizhou	Jixi	棉花
Jin	Taiyuan	棉花
Jin	Xinzhou	棉花
Northern Min	Jian'ou	棉花
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	棉花, 棉
Southern Min	Xiamen	棉花
	Quanzhou	棉花
	Zhangzhou	棉花
	Tainan	棉仔
	Chaozhou	棉花
	Leizhou	棉
	Haikou	棉花
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	棉花
Wu	Shanghai	棉花, 花
	Shanghai (Chongming)	棉花
	Suzhou	棉花
	Danyang	棉花
	Hangzhou	棉花
	Ningbo	棉花, 花
	Wenzhou	棉花
	Jinhua	棉花
Xiang	Changsha	棉花
	Loudi	棉花
	Shuangfeng	棉花

Derived terms

棉花坪 (Miánhuāpíng)
棉花糖 (miánhuātáng)
棉花車子 / 棉花车子
棉花雞 / 棉花鸡 (miánhuājī)

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (棉花):

→ Japanese: 綿(めん)花(か) (menka)
→ Korean: 면화(棉花) (myeonhwa)

Others:

→ Guiqiong: mɐ̃χɐ

Proper noun

棉花

(～嶼) Mianhua Islet (an islet of Zhongzheng district, Keelung, Taiwan)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
棉	花
めん Hyōgai	か Grade: 1
on'yomi

For pronunciation and definitions of 棉花 – see the following entry.

【綿花めんか】

[noun] raw cotton, cotton on the bush, a cotton flower

(This term, 棉花, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Korean

Hanja in this term
棉	花

Noun

棉花 • (myeonhwa) (hangeul 면화)

hanja form^? of 면화 (“cotton”)