Chinese

床

chuáng
bed; couch (Classifier: 張／张 m c)
  • Ideogrammatic compound 會意
  • HSK 1
  • TOCFL 2
  • radical 广
  • 7 strokes

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Origin

Originally an unorthodox variant of 牀. Now made up of 广 (“house”) + 木 (“tree”), an ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意) representing a wooden furniture item (a bed) in a house.

Schuessler (2007) suggests that it may be related to Khmer រង (rɔɔng, “to support from below”), Old Mon [script needed] (joṅ, “couch; bedstead”). Compare also Burmese စင် (cang, “platform, stage”) (Luce, 1981).

Baxter & Sagart (2014) reconstructs OC prefixal *k- based on Vietic evidences: cf. Maleng [Brô] kacɨəŋ, Maleng [Kha Pong] kəcɨːŋ² , Chut [Sách, Rục] kəcɨːŋ².

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Lineage

  • componentChinese广 “house built to depend on a cliff”
  • componentChinese木 “tree; woody plant”

Related: Khmer រង, Burmese စင်

Words built on it: 起床

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