Chinese symbol for “bed”
床
chuáng
bed; couch (furniture that one can lie down on) (张 (zhāng)); bed; bottom (of rivers, oceans, gardens etc); frame; chassis; classifier for blankets, quilts etc
The closest CC-CEDICT match for bed is 床 (chuáng), defined as: bed; couch (furniture that one can lie down on) (张 (zhāng)); bed; bottom (of rivers, oceans, gardens etc); frame; chassis; classifier for blankets, quilts etc.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “bed”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 床位 | chuáng wèi | bed (in hospital, hotel, train etc); berth |
| 床铺 (床鋪) | chuáng pù | bed |
| 卧铺 (臥鋪) | wò pù | a bed (on a train); a couchette |
| 卧床 (臥床) | wò chuáng | to lie in bed; bedridden |
| 基床 | jī chuáng | foundation (of building); bed (e.g. bedrock) |
Related words
Other words that share a character 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 |
See also: Japanese symbol for “bed”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.