牀

chuáng
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 (variant) old form of 床 (bed; couch)

Examples

HSK 5
Chuáng shì chuáng de gǔ xiěfǎ.
This is the older written form of 床, a bed.

Tips

history
牀 is the older, fuller form of 床 (bed). It writes the bed-board radical 爿 explicitly beside 木 (wood); the modern form 床 replaced 爿 with a roof 广. You meet 牀 only in classical and traditional texts.
register
Archaic variant only; always write 床 today.

Components

radical
木 mù
wood; timber
木 is the wood radical, marking the material: a bed is built of wood. It is the part that survives unchanged into the modern 床.
semantic
爿 pán
split wooden board; bed-frame
爿 is a half-split log standing on end - the original picture of a bedstead. It supplies the core meaning of 牀, a frame to sleep on, and was dropped when the form simplified to 床.

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Stroke Order

牀 chuáng