BED    床

FURNITURE ON which one SLEEPS.
Old Chinese Criteria
1. The current standard word for a bed is chuáng 床. 2. Kuāng 筐 refers to (bamboo-made??) bedding used on a bed.
Modern Chinese Criteria
床 榻 鋪 床鋪 床榻 枕席 臥榻 rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／
Hyponym
  • CRADLE　INTENSELY SMALL BED FOR BABIES. (anc: 7/0, child: 0)
See also
  • MATA BLANKET FOR PUTTING ON the FLOOR.
  • PILLOWOFTEN (BUT NOT ALWAYS!) SOFT ARTEFACT USED TO SUPPORT the HEAD of SLEEPING HUMANS.
Hypernym
  • FURNITURE　ARTEFACTS OFTEN PRODUCED USING TIMBER OR BAMBOO FOR CAUSING ROOMS to BECOME APPROPRIATE DWELLINGS. (anc: 5/0, child: 6)
  • ARTEFACT　THING PRODUCED by MAN. (anc: 4/0, child: 26)
  • THING　CONCRETE OBJECT. (anc: 3/0, child: 10)
  • A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages ( BUCK 1988) p. 7.42

  • Lateinische Synonyme und Etymologien ( DOEDERLEIN 1840) p.

    BED

    cubile refers to a place where men or animals can lie down and sleep.

    lectus refers specifically to a bed on which humans are to sleep.

  • Verzeichnis und Motivindex der Han-Darstellungen ( FINSTERBUSCH 1966) p. 203

  • Realencyklopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft ( PAULY 1894-1973) p. 3.370

    BETTEN

  • Handbook of Greek Synonymes, from the French of M. Alex. Pillon, Librarian of the Bibliothèque Royale , at Paris, and one of the editors of the new edition of Plaché's Dictionnaire Grec-Français, edited, with notes, by the Rev. Thomas Kerchever Arnold, M.A. Rector of Lyndon, and late fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge ( PILLON 1850) p. no.249

  • Handbook of Greek Synonymes, from the French of M. Alex. Pillon, Librarian of the Bibliothèque Royale , at Paris, and one of the editors of the new edition of Plaché's Dictionnaire Grec-Français, edited, with notes, by the Rev. Thomas Kerchever Arnold, M.A. Rector of Lyndon, and late fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge ( PILLON 1850) p. no.292

    • Words (4 items)

    床  chuáng OC: sɡraŋ MC: ɖʐi̯ɐŋ
    床  chuáng OC: sɡraŋ MC: ɖʐi̯ɐŋ 18 Attributions

    The current standard word for a bed is chuáng 床.

      Syntactic words
    • na bed 於床 and not necessarily 於床上
    • viactuse a proper bedstead, make one's bedstead (in a place)
    • vt+prep+Nmake one's bed in the place N
    床笫  chuáng zǐ OC: sɡraŋ tsrɯʔ MC: ɖʐi̯ɐŋ ʈʂɨ 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • NPbed
    筐  kuāng OC: khʷaŋ MC: khi̯ɐŋ 1 Attribution

    Kuāng 筐 refers to bedding used on a bed.

      Syntactic words
    • nbedding
    榻  tà OC: thaab MC: thɑp 0 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • ncouch