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棉花

mián hua

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word

棉花 (mián hua) means "cotton". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 棉花 means

1. cotton

The characters in 棉花

• 棉miángeneric term for cotton or kapok; cotton; padded or quilted with cotton
• 花huāflower; blossom; fancy pattern

Example sentences

• 有一天我买了一台棉花糖机。
  Yǒu yī tiān wǒ mǎi le yī tái miánhuātáng jī.
  Someday I'll buy a cotton candy machine.
• Trang，如果我能寄给你一个棉花糖，我会这么做的。
  T rang, rúguǒ wǒ néng jì gěi nǐ yī gè miánhuātáng, wǒ huì zhème zuò de.
  If I could send you a marshmallow, Trang, I would.
• Trang，如果我能寄给你一个棉花糖，我会这幺做的。
  If I could send you a marshmallow, Trang, I would.

Words starting with 棉花

• 棉花棒mián huā bàngcotton swab; cotton bud
• 棉花糖mián huā tángcotton candy; candyfloss; marshmallow

Where 棉花 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Nature, Plants & Agriculture (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read mián hua correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.