棉棒 miánbàng cotton swab Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 棉 mián cotton Silk 帛 picked off a tree 木 Components 木 木 Meaning component mù tree 帛 帛 Meaning component bó silks Historical Pronunciations Middle ChineseOld ChineseZhengzhangmenUnicodemiɛn Sources Readings & variants Unicode Historical pronunciations Zhengzhang Shangfang 棒 bàng stick Phonosemantic compound. 木 represents the meaning and 奉 represents the sound. Components 木 木 Meaning component mù tree 奉 奉 Sound component fèng offer Historical Pronunciations Old ChineseZhengzhangbroːŋʔ Sources Character origin 漢語多功能字庫Readings & variants Unicode Historical pronunciations Zhengzhang Shangfang