Dong Chinese dictionary

chuáng

bed

Depicts a bed (爿) made from wood (木). Originally written as 爿 or 牀.

Components

pán, qiáng

piece of wood

Depicts a bed.

Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 爿 than it was in ancient scripts.

木 Meaning component

mù

tree

Evolution

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)

Bronze script

Late Warring States (~250 BC)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Traditional script

Modern

Simplified script

Modern

Definitions

chuáng

bed, couch; framework, chassis; bed; couch; classifier for beds; CL:張|张[zhāng]

chuáng

variant of 床[chuáng]

Most common words with 床

Sources

季旭昇《說文新證》p.489-490