Chinese symbol for “bedridden”
卧床
wò chuáng
Traditional: 臥床
to lie in bed; bedridden; bed
The closest CC-CEDICT match for bedridden is 卧床 (wò chuáng), defined as: to lie in bed; bedridden; bed.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Related words
Other words that share a character with 卧床.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 卧室 (臥室) | wò shì | bedroom; 间 (jiān) |
| 卧底 (臥底) | wò dǐ | to hide (as an undercover agent); an insider (in a gang of thieves) |
| 卧龙 (臥龍) | wò lóng | sleeping dragon; (fig.) a person of outstanding talent who lives in obscurity |
| 俯卧撑 (俯臥撐) | fǔ wò chēng | push-up; press-up (exercise) |
| 卧铺 (臥鋪) | wò pù | a bed (on a train); a couchette |
| 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 |
See also: Japanese symbol for “bedridden”.
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.