min4棉
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Definition
Cotton, including the plant and its soft white seed fibers used for making fabric.
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How it's used
Refers specifically to the material or fiber itself, whereas the raw, fluffy plant form is almost always called 棉花. When discussing clothing, it is common to use the compound 棉質 to describe the fabric composition or texture. It is rarely used as a standalone noun in casual speech unless referring to the raw material in a technical or industrial context.
Examples
Do you prefer wearing cotton or silk clothes?
Related words
Common mistake
Learners often confuse the material 棉 with the plant 棉花. Use 棉 when talking about the fabric or fiber content of a garment, but use 棉花 if you are talking about the fluffy white substance harvested from the plant.
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Grammar guides
- LocationHow to say where something is using 喺 (hai2), place words like 度, and the common coverbs that work like English prepositions.
- Serial verbsStringing two or more verbs together without any joining word, like go to the shop buy things. Extremely common in Cantonese.
- 將 disposalHow to move the object in front of the verb with 將, to focus on what happens to it. Common in instructions and writing.
