# 棉花
## Chinese

* 棉花 (Written Standard Chinese)
* 棉花 (Cantonese)
* Mièng-huă (Eastern Min)
* Mî-hoe (Southern Min)
* 棉花 (Wu)

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Standard)
       (Pinyin): miánhuā, miánhua
       (Zhuyin): ㄇㄧㄢˊ ㄏㄨㄚ, ㄇㄧㄢˊ ˙ㄏㄨㄚ
    (Chengdu, Sichuanese Pinyin): mian$^2$ hua$^1$
* Cantonese (Jyutping): min$^4$ faa$^1$
* Hakka
    (Sixian, PFS): mièn-fâ
    (Hailu, HRS): mien fa$^ˋ$
    (Meixian, Guangdong): miên$^2$ fa$^1$
* Jin (Wiktionary): mie$^1$ hua$^1$
* Eastern Min (BUC): mièng-huă
* Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): ming$^2$ hua$^1$
* Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): mî-hoe / mî-hoa
* Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): $^6$mi-ho
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese, standard in Mainland, standard in Taiwan)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: miánhuā
*** Zhuyin: ㄇㄧㄢˊ ㄏㄨㄚ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: miánhua
*** Wade–Giles: mien$^2$-hua$^1$
*** Yale: myán-hwā
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: mianhua
*** Palladius: мяньхуа (mjanʹxua)
*** Sinological IPA : /mi̯ɛn³⁵ xu̯ä⁵⁵/
** (Standard Chinese, standard in Mainland, variant in Taiwan)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: miánhua
*** Zhuyin: ㄇㄧㄢˊ ˙ㄏㄨㄚ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: miánhuå
*** Wade–Giles: mien$^2$-hua$^5$
*** Yale: myán-hwa
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: mian.hua
*** Palladius: мяньхуа (mjanʹxua)
*** Sinological IPA : /mi̯ɛn³⁵ xu̯ä³/
** (Chengdu)
*** Sichuanese Pinyin: mian$^2$ hua$^1$
*** Scuanxua Ladinxua Xin Wenz: mianxua
*** Sinological IPA : /miɛn²¹ xua⁵⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: min$^4$ faa$^1$
*** Yale: mìhn fā
*** Cantonese Pinyin: min$^4$ faa$^1$
*** Guangdong Romanization: min$^4$ fa$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /miːn²¹ faː⁵⁵/
* Hakka
** (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
*** Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: mièn-fâ
*** Hakka Romanization System: mien$^ˇ$ fa$^ˊ$
*** Hagfa Pinyim: mian$^2$ fa$^1$
*** Sinological IPA: /mi̯en¹¹ fa²⁴/
** (Hailu, incl. Zhudong)
*** Hakka Romanization System: mien fa$^ˋ$
*** Sinological IPA: /mien⁵⁵ fa⁵³/
** (Meixian)
*** Guangdong: miên$^2$ fa$^1$
*** Sinological IPA: /miɛn¹¹ fa⁴⁴/
* Jin
** (Taiyuan)
*** Wiktionary: mie$^1$ hua$^1$
*** Sinological IPA (old-style): /mie¹¹ xua¹¹/
* Eastern Min
** (Fuzhou)
*** Bàng-uâ-cê: mièng-huă
*** Sinological IPA : /mieŋ⁵³⁻⁵⁵ $^{(h-)}$ŋua⁵⁵/
* Puxian Min
** (Putian, Xianyou)
*** Pouseng Ping'ing: ming$^2$ hua$^1$ [Phonetic: ming$^5$ ngua$^1$]
*** Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: míng-hua
*** Sinological IPA : /miŋ¹³⁻²¹ $^{(h-)}$ŋua⁵³³/
* 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: $^6$mi-ho
*** MiniDict: mi$^去$ ho
*** Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): $^3$mi-ho
*** Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /mi²² ho⁴⁴/

### Noun

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

#### Synonyms

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

* → Japanese: 綿(めん)花(か) (menka)
* → Korean: 면화(棉花) (myeonhwa)
Others:
* → Guiqiong: mɐ̃χɐ

### Proper noun

棉花
* (～嶼) Mianhua Islet (an islet in 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”)