牀

See also: 床

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

Translingual

Han character

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

Derived characters

• 𦝆, 𤷲, 𩃕, 𡞓, 𦝍

Related characters

• 床 (Modern form in Chinese and Japanese)

Further reading

Wikisource

• KangXi: page 691, character 15
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19763
• Dae Jaweon: page 1104, character 11
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): 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.)

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A01203-001

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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(しょう)几(ぎ) (shōgi)
• 牀(しょう)榻(とう) (shōtō)

Counter

牀(しょう) • (-shō) 

1. Alternative form of 床

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Korean

Alternative forms

• 床 (상 (sang))

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 牀 (MC d͡ʒɨɐŋ). Recorded as Middle Korean 사ᇰ (Yale: sang) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Hanja

Wikisource

牀 (eumhun 평상 상 (pyeongsang sang))

1. Hanja form^? of 상 (“bed”).

Compounds

Compounds

• 상궤 (牀几, sanggwe)
• 상슬 (牀蝨, sangseul)
• 상탑 (牀榻, sangtap)
• 병상 (病牀, byeongsang)
• 석상 (石牀, seoksang)
• 침상 (寢牀, chimsang)
• 평상 (平牀, pyeongsang)
• 삼계상 (三界牀, samgyesang)
• 용평상/룡평상 (龍平牀, yongpyeongsang/ryongpyeongsang)
• 접침상 (摺寢牀, jeopchimsang)

References

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典. [1]

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Vietnamese

Han character

牀: Hán Việt readings: sàng (仕(sĩ)莊(trang)切(thiết)), giường, giầng
牀: Nôm readings: giường, sàng, giàng, giầng

1. Hán tự form of sàng (“winnowing basket”).
2. Nôm form of giường (“bed”).