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床

chuáng

bed

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

Components
爿 sound,iconic component

爿  Sound Iconic component

pán, qiáng

  

piece of wood

Depicts a bed.

木 meaning component

木  Meaning component

mù

  

tree

Evolution

床 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
床 Bronze script Late Warring States (~250 BC)

Bronze script

Late Warring States (~250 BC)
床 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
床 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
床 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

床  

chuáng

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

床 (牀) 

chuáng

variant of 床[chuáng]

Most common words with 床
Freq.
Word
Meaning

床

bed

临床

clinical

起床

to get up

床单

bed sheet

病床

sickbed

Statistics

HSK level 1

Appears in 53.6601% of movies

705th most common character in movies

1068th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Traditional

牀

Unicode

U+5E8A


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