床 — Chinese character
床
chuáng
bed, couch; framework, chassis
- Pinyin
- chuáng
- Radical
- 53 ⼴ (Dotted Cliff)
- Strokes
- 7
- Components
- 广 木
- Formation
- ideographic — A house 广 made out of wood 木; 广 also provides the pronunciation
- Japanese
- 床 as a kanji
Common words with 床
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 临床 (臨床) | lín chuáng | (medicine) clinical |
| 起床 | qǐ chuáng | to get out of bed; to get up |
| 上床 | shàng chuáng | to go to bed; (coll.) to have sex |
| 床单 (床單) | chuáng dān | bed sheet; 条 (tiáo),件 (jiàn),张 (zhāng),床 (chuáng) |
| 机床 (機床) | jī chuáng | machine tool; a lathe |
| 病床 | bìng chuáng | hospital bed; sickbed |
| 床垫 (床墊) | chuáng diàn | mattress; 张 (zhāng) |
| 床位 | chuáng wèi | bed (in hospital, hotel, train etc); berth |
| 河床 | hé chuáng | riverbed |
| 床边 (床邊) | chuáng biān | bedside |
| 床头 (床頭) | chuáng tóu | bedhead; bedside |
| 卧床 (臥床) | wò chuáng | to lie in bed; bedridden |
English words written with 床
床 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Mencius 1
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.