棉凫棉鳧 in English

Character breakdown

• 棉 mián generic term for cotton or kapok
• 凫鳧 fú mallard

How it used to be written

These are the forms of 鳧, the traditional character: 凫 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

• Oracle bone script 商
• Clerical script 東漢
• See all 7 forms

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).