牀

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See also: 床
牀 U+7240, 牀
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7240
← 爿
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 牁 →

Translingual

Han character

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

Derived characters

  • 床 (Modern form in Chinese and Japanese)

Further reading

Chinese Wikisource has digitized text of the Kangxi Dictionary entry for 牀:

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  • Kangxi Dictionary: 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

Chinese

Glyph origin

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

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) and phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *zraŋ) : phonetic 爿 (OC *braːn, *zaŋ, “bed”) + semantic 木 (“wood”).

Definitions

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

References

Japanese

Kanji

牀

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

Readings

Compounds

Definitions

For pronunciation and definitions of 牀 – see the following entry.
【床しょう】S
sickbed
beds
(This term, 牀, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Korean

Alternative forms

Etymology

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

Hanja

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

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牀 (eumhun 평상 상 (pyeongsang sang))

  1. Hanja form? of 상 (“bed”).

Compounds

Compounds

References

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

Vietnamese

Han character

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

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

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Nguyễn (2014).
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Nguyễn et al. (2009).
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Trần (2004).
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 Bonet (1899).
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Génibrel (1898).
  6. ^ Taberd & Pigneau de Béhaine (1838).
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