Chinese Word of the Day

棉花球
mián huā qiú

cotton ball

Definitions

Components
棉	mián
1. n. Cotton and/or kapok.
2. adj. Made of cotton.
3. adj. Padded with cotton.
花	huā
1. flower; blossom
花朵 - flower
2. florid, flowery
3. pattern, design
松花蛋 - thousand-year-old egg
4. blurred
眼花 - to have blurred vision
5. fireworks
6. essence, cream
7. wound
8. smallpox
9. courtesan, prostitute
10. to spend (money, time, etc.)
11. profligate
12. (slang) randy, lecherous
13. (slang) to be horny; to womanize
14. false
15. (Cantonese) scratched
16. Hua
球	qiú
1. ball, globe, orb
2. (mathematics) sphere
3. round, spherical
4. earth
5. ball (in sports)
6. ball game
7. (Classifier for spherical objects.)
8. (Teochew, Xiang) (Classifier for stringed objects.) string
9. (dialectal Mandarin, Jin, vulgar) (Expletive. Often used in the form of……個球. Underlying meaning may be testes.)
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