床

Glyph origin
Originally an unorthodox variant of. Now made up of, an representing a wooden furniture item (a bed) in a house.

Etymology
suggests that it may be related to 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Definitions

 * 1) bed; couch
 * 2) framework; chassis
 * 3)  table
 * 4)  rails of the well
 * 5) bottom; bed
 * 1)  rails of the well
 * 2) bottom; bed

Descendants
Others:

Compounds

 * : sharing a bed

Etymology 1
From. Attested in the, completed in 720 and one of the earliest works written in Japanese (see Nihon Shoki), with a meaning of.

According to the 和句解 (Wakuge), published in 1668 by early Edo-period scholar Matsunaga Teitoku (松永貞徳; see 松永貞徳), derives from ゆか (yuka) as the stem of the verb  of an original meaning similar to "not going", in reference to a place where one sits down to rest.

Noun

 * 1) the floor (the bottom surface of a room)
 * 2) a bed
 * 3)  a raised area of a stage where a presenter or musician sits
 * 4) a raised platform erected along the Kamo River in Kyōto in summer, used as an outdoor tea shop or restaurant
 * 1) a raised platform erected along the Kamo River in Kyōto in summer, used as an outdoor tea shop or restaurant

Antonyms

 * : ceiling

Coordinate terms

 * : wall

Etymology 2
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From. Cognate with. Attested since at least the, appearing in the , completed in 759.

Possibly an ancient compound of (, as in , “footprint, track”, from “foot place, where one has stepped”) +  (noun-forming suffixing element denoting “place”, as in  , “here”, from “this place”).

Noun

 * 1) a raised platform roughly 30cm tall used in dirt-floored rooms as a seat
 * 2) a raised area on which to sleep: a bed
 * 3) a sickbed
 * 4) the floor
 * 5) tatami mats
 * 6) the seat of an oxcart
 * 7) short for  / : an alcove with a raised floor along one wall of a traditional Japanese living room
 * 8) an alcove with a raised floor used as a study: see
 * 9) a box seat, such as at a parade, theater, or stadium
 * 10) short for : a stall with a raised floor used as a store
 * 11) short for : a barbershop, from how such shops were historically often tokomise
 * 12) short for, : the large wooden beam at the very aft of a traditional wood-hulled Japanese ship, upon which the rudder is seated
 * 13) the heel of a plough; the part of the bottom of a plough that touches the ground and guides the ploughshare
 * 14) short for : a seedbed
 * 15) short for, : an anvil

Etymology 3
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From. Devoicing apparently occurred after borrowing.

Noun

 * 1) sickbed

Counter

 * 1) beds