綿
mián

cotton wad

绵 (綿) mián
continuous descriptive
continuous, unbroken, or lingering

窗外下着连绵的细雨。

chuāng wài xià zhe lián mián de xì​yǔ.

A steady drizzle is falling outside the window.

mild-mannered adjective
gentle, mild-tempered, or good-natured (dialect)

他性格很绵，从来不发火。

tā xìng​gé hěn mián, cóng​lái bù fā​huǒ.

He has a very mild temperament and never loses his temper.

silk floss descriptive
silk floss or raw silk fiber used for padding

这件冬衣里絮了厚厚的丝绵。

zhè jiàn dōng​yī lǐ xù le hòu​hòu de sī mián.

This winter coat is padded with thick silk floss.

soft adjective
soft in texture or weak in strength

这款点心的口感非常绵，入口即化。

zhè kuǎn diǎn​xin de kǒu​gǎn fēi​cháng mián, rù​kǒu jí huà.

The texture of this pastry is very soft and melts in your mouth.

Frequency
Character
Written text
2,186th most common 29.1 per million
Movie subtitles
2,453rd most common 9.22 per million appears in 5% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
0.360 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
3.54 per million

Details
Simplified
绵
Strokes
14
Unicode
U+7DBF

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)