Illustration: At a community textile workshop, an instructor gently pulls a tuft of soft fiber from a dried cotton boll still attached to its stem. Several open bolls show the same fluffy material emerging from their split casings.

JLPT N3nounLevel estimated by Bebop

綿めん

men

cotton

Example sentences

彼かれはウールと綿めんの区別くべつがつかない。
He cannot tell wool from cotton.
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綿めんは水みずを吸すい込こむ。
Cotton sucks up water.
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上質じょうしつの綿めんでできています。
It’s made of fine cotton.
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Kanji in 綿

綿cottonOnメンKunわた

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