HSK 3.0 Level 2 · Things

床 chuáng “bed” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 床 means

  1. bed
  2. couch
  3. couch (furniture that one can lie down on)
  4. bottom (of rivers, oceans, gardens etc)
  5. frame
More meanings from CC-CEDICT
  • chassis
  • classifier for blankets, quilts etc

How to say 床

  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale床chuáng2nd tone, rising

床 in a sentence

  1. 狗跟我一起睡在床上。

    Gǒu gēn wǒ yìqǐ shuì zài chuáng shàng.

    My dog sleeps in the bed with me.

    Sentence #10273853 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 你的床有多大呀？

    Nǐ de chuáng yǒu duō dà ya?

    How big is your bed?

    Sentence #10303628 from Tatoeba

  3. 该起床了。

    Gāi qǐchuáng le.

    Time to get up.

    Sentence #760906 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 床 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 床 (chuáng) with each of its parts in a different colour
床chuángbed; couch 张)
  • 广shelter · guǎng
  • 木tree · mù

Memory aidPicture wood 木 under a shelter 广: a bed.

How to write 床

床 7 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

床 (chuáng) stroke order chart: each stroke of the character in the order you write it
Stroke order chart for 床 (chuáng). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 床

Words with 床

起床qǐchuáng · to get up临床línchuáng · clinical床单chuángdān · bed sheet

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FAQs

床 (chuáng) means “bed” or “couch”. It is an HSK 3.0 Level 2 word.
Say it chuáng: chuáng with a 2nd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 床 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type chuang with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 床 from the suggestions. Typing chuang into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
床 is an HSK 3.0 Level 2 word in the official 2021 syllabus, and it is on our HSK 3.0 Band 2 word list. It is not on the older HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.