床
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bed; couch (furniture that one can lie down on) (CL:張|张[zhang1]); bed; bottom (of rivers, oceans, gardens etc); frame; chassis; classifier for blankets, quilts etc
- HSK 3.0
- Level 1
- Old HSK
- Level 2
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 广 +4
- Structure
- Upper-left enclosure 左上包
- Traditional
- 床
- Common rank
- #893
- Unicode
- U+5E8A
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Words with 床
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| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 起床 | to get out of bed; to get up | |
| 上下床 | bunk bed | |
| 单人床 | single bed; CL:張|张[zhang1] | |
| 起床气 | grumpiness resulting from poor sleep; irritability in the morning | |
| 大床间 | see 大床房[da4 chuang2 fang2] | |
| 行军床 | camp bed; bivouac | |
| 沙发床 | sofa bed; sleeper sofa | |
| 双人床 | double bed | |
| 大床房 | hotel room with one double (or queen or king) bed | |
| 起床号 | reveille | |
| 八角床 | traditional-style canopy bed | |
| 水床 | waterbed; water mattress | |
| 床头 | bedhead; bedside; headboard | |
| 海床 | seabed; seafloor; ocean floor | |
| 机床 | machine tool; a lathe; CL:張|张[zhang1] | |
| 数控机床 | computer numerical control machine tool (CNC machine tool) | |
| 花床 | flower bed | |
| 上床 | to go to bed; (coll.) to have sex | |
| 车床 | lathe | |
| 临床医学 | clinical medicine |