line / trace / mark / pattern / grain (of wood etc)

= + : Willy Walrus (w) wants to continue reading his favorite book (文) in the encampment's kitchen ((e)n2), but he finds that a silk worm (纟) left a lot of traces (纹) where it ate through the book.

紋 character breakdown

language / culture / writing / formal / literary / gentle / (old) classifier for coins / Kangxi radical 67

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a thick book.

Willy Walrus (w) wants to cook in the encampment's kitchen ((e)n2). The recipe book (文) is extremely greasy and Willy doesn't want it to touch anything, nor touch it. That's why he puts it into a beret (亠) so that it doesn't touch the floor, and uses pliers (乂) to turn the pages.
"silk" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 120), occurring in 紅|红[hong2], 綠|绿[lü4], 累[lei4] etc / also pr. [mi4]

A silk worm.

Characters with 紋 as component

紋 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 紋

fingerprint / the arches, loops and whorls on the fingers
wrinkle / CL:道[dao4]
ripple / corrugation
stripe / streak
horizontal stripe / striation
nasolabial fold / smile lines / laugh lines
rhyolite (extrusive igneous rock, chemically equivalent to granite)
(bird species of China) spotted laughingthrush (Garrulax ocellatus)
(bird species of China) Claudia's leaf warbler (Phylloscopus claudiae)
die (printing, metalwork etc)
(bird species of China) striated laughingthrush (Garrulax striatus)

Sentences with 紋

紋 currently does not appear in any sentence.