床 is also the simplified spelling of 牀.
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床
Mandarin · pinyin chuáng
Meanings
- bed; couch (furniture that one can lie down on) (Classifier: 張 zhāng)
- bed; bottom (of rivers, oceans, gardens etc)
- frame; chassis
- classifier for blankets, quilts etc
Characters in this entry
- 床
- chuáng · bed, couch; framework, chassis
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Mandarin tones
2 · chuang2
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Rime Cantonese 粵拼
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Cantonese word readings for 床. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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Independent source senses for this spelling, with usage labels retained. Not matched to the pronunciation above.
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- bed; couch (Classifier: 張/张 m c)
- framework; chassis
- (Teochew, Leizhou Min, Hainanese, Puxian Min, Zhongshan Min) table
- (obsolete) rails of the well
- bottom; bed
- Classifier for beddings.
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