牀

See also: 床

牀 U+7240, 牀 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7240 ← 爿 [U+723F] CJK Unified Ideographs 牁 → [U+7241]

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Translingual

Han character

牀 (radical 90, 爿+4, 8 strokes, cangjie input 女一木 (VMD), four-corner 2429₀, composition ⿰爿木)

1. bed, couch
2. bench
3. chassis

References

• KangXi: page 691, character 15
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19763
• Dae Jaweon: page 1104, character 11
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2374, character 4
• Unihan data for U+7240

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Chinese

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 牀
Shang		Warring States			Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Bronze inscriptions	Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Chu Slip and silk script	Qin slip script	Small seal script

Characters in the same phonetic series (爿) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
臧	*ʔsaːŋ
牂	*ʔsaːŋ
戕	*kaːl, *ʔsaːŋ, *zaŋ
贓	*ʔsaːŋ
藏	*zaːŋ, *zaːŋs
奘	*zaːŋʔ, *zaːŋs
臟	*zaːŋs
將	*ʔsaŋ, *ʔsaŋs
漿	*ʔsaŋ
鱂	*ʔsaŋ
蔣	*ʔsaŋ, *ʔsaŋʔ
螿	*ʔsaŋ
槳	*ʔsaŋʔ
獎	*ʔsaŋʔ
醬	*ʔsaŋs
鏘	*sʰaŋ
蹡	*sʰaŋ, *ʔshaŋs
嶈	*sʰaŋ
斨	*sʰaŋ
爿	*braːn, *zaŋ
牆	*zaŋ
妝	*ʔsraŋ
莊	*ʔsraŋ
裝	*ʔsraŋ, *ʔsraŋs
壯	*ʔsraŋs
疒	*rnɯːɡ, *zraŋ
床	*zraŋ
牀	*zraŋ
狀	*zraŋs

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *zraŋ): phonetic 爿 (OC *braːn, *zaŋ) + semantic 木.

Definitions

For pronunciation and definitions of 牀 – see 床 (“bed; couch; framework; chassis; etc.”). (This character, 牀, is a variant traditional form of 床.)

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Japanese

Kanji

牀

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

Readings

• Go-on: じょう (jō)
• Kan-on: そう (sō)
• Kan’yō-on: しょう (shō)
• Kun: ゆか (yuka, 牀)

Compounds

• 牀几 (しょうぎ) (shōgi)

Counter

牀 (hiragana しょう, rōmaji -shō)

1. Alternative form of 床

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Korean

Hanja

牀 • (sang) (hangeul 상, revised sang, McCune–Reischauer sang, Yale sang)

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