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  *床* | 床* | *床
bed; couch (furniture that one can lie down on) (CL:張|张) / bed; bottom (of rivers, oceans, gardens etc) / frame; chassis / classifier for blankets, quilts etc
HSK 1
to go to bed / to sleep
HSK 1
to get out of bed; to get up
HSK 1
to find a place for / to help settle down / to arrange for / to get into bed / placement
HSK 4
a bed (on a train) / a couchette
HSK 6
to go to bed / (coll.) to have sex
to have difficulties sleeping in a bed other than one's own
to conduct a bed check
bunk bed
double bed
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  *裯* | 裯* | *裯
bed curtain / coverlet
bed (in hospital, hotel, train etc) / berth / bunk
HSK 7-9
bed
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  *绷* | 绷* | *绷
to draw tight; to stretch taut / to tack (with thread or pin) / (bound form) embroidery hoop / (bound form) woven bed mat
HSK 7-9
single bed / CL: 張|张
bed sheet / CL: 條|条, , 張|张,
early to bed, early to rise; to keep early hours
to fold / collapsible; folding (bicycle, antenna, bed etc)
HSK 7-9
hospital bed / sickbed
HSK 7-9
to go down to the fields / to get up from bed / to leave one's sickbed / to be born
to make a mess / to mess with / to be wild / to sleep around / to jump into bed
sofa bed / sleeper sofa
to make one's bed on the floor
heated brick common bed
crib / children's bed
lit. to share the same bed with different dreams (idiom); ostensible partners with different agendas / strange bedfellows / marital dissension
to cut the feet to fit the shoes (idiom); to force sth to fit (as to a Procrustean bed) / impractical or inelegant solution
frightening words to scare people (idiom); alarmist talk / reds under the beds
to wet the bed
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  *铺* | 铺* | *铺
plank bed / place to sleep / shop / store / (old) relay station
to toss about in bed / from person to person / indirectly / to wander
to have a lie-in / to dawdle in bed
wife, kids and a warm bed (idiom) / the simple and good life
to go to bed / to retire for the night
camp bed / bivouac
to share the bed / (fig.) to be married
a couch / a narrow bed
bed urinal / chamber pot
bunk beds
to die of old age / to die in one's bed at a ripe old age / (fig.) (of a structure or machine etc) to come to the end of its life
(orthographic borrowing from Japanese 民宿 "minshuku") property rented via Airbnb or similar platform; guesthouse; bed-and-breakfast; homestay; pension
the person who shares one's bed; partner; spouse
foundation (of building) / bed (e.g. bedrock) / substrate
to toss and turn restlessly (in the bed)
one person / single (room, bed etc)
to have a rest / to stay for the night / to go to bed / to sleep
vegetable field / vegetable bed
bier / bed kept as it was when the deceased was alive
hotel room with one double (or queen or king) bed
(traditional bedding) quilt wrapped around the body as a tube / (contemporary) bedding; bed cover
to go to sleep / to go to bed (literary)
Lop Nor, former salt lake in Xinjiang, now a salt-encrusted lake bed
(bed) sheet / envelope for a padded coverlet / CL:
to have a shower and go to bed / (fig.) (slang) (neologism) (often sarcastic) to give up on sth unrealistic; to stop kidding oneself; (used dismissively, typically as 洗洗睡吧) keep dreaming
euphemism for sexual intercourse / to go to bed with sb
to live (one's life) well / (slang) to be good in bed
a coal bed / a coal seam
to lie in bed / bedridden / bed
to make a bed / to lay bedding
rectangular frame with a palm fiber mat woven across it (placed on a bed frame as the sleeping surface)
bunk bed
flower bed / flower terrace / flower stand
mat used to cover a pillow / (literary) bed
to seize a camp / to surprise the enemy in bed
fitted bed sheet
lit. Sow melon and you get melon, sow beans and you get beans (idiom); fig. As you sow, so shall you reap. / One must live with the consequences of one's actions. / You've made your bed, now must lie on it.
drawer / stackable cooking vessel / woven mat on a bed frame or chair / woven window screen
ill in bed; bed-ridden
to be industrious, rising early and going to bed late
traditional-style canopy bed
stratified / bedded (geology)
to lie down on a bed / (physiology) implantation (attachment of a blastocyst to the lining of the uterus) / (of an oyster larva) to attach to a substrate / (fig.) to take root / to become established
the edge of a bed
lit. cut sleeve (idiom); fig. euphemism for homosexuality, originating from History of Western Han 漢書|汉书: emperor Han Aidi (real name Liu Xin) was in bed with his lover Dong Xian, and had to attend a court audience that morning. Not wishing to awaken Dong Xian, who was sleeping with his head resting on the emperor's long robe sleeve, Aidi used a knife to cut off the lower half of his sleeve.
vegetable field / vegetable bed
bed curtain / mosquito net
to take to the woods to become an outlaw / (dialect) to be born (Etymology: in former times, a bed of straw or grass was used as padding during childbirth)
bed pan
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  *幮* | 幮* | *幮
a kind of mosquito net / bed curtain
rice seedling bed
flower bed
to trade sex for favorable treatment (career advancement, higher grades, rent-free accommodation etc) / to sleep in the same bed as one's child
to wet the bed
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  *炕* | 炕* | *炕
kang (a heatable brick bed) / to bake / to dry by the heat of a fire
to change one's viewpoint / to turn from side to side (in bed)
the Emperor's bed
bed and bamboo sleeping mat / (fig.) bed as a place for intimacy
heatable brick bed
a common bed (to sleep many)
lit. to fear the wolf in front and the tiger behind (idiom) / fig. to be full of needless fears / reds under the beds
skills in bed / sexual prowess
to be laid up in bed with illness
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  *笫* | 笫* | *笫
bamboo mat / bed mat
river bed / channel
cold pillow and lonely bed (idiom); fig. cold and solitary existence
to make a bed / to lay bedding
bed-wetting
flower bed
seeing to bed in the evening and visiting in the morning (ancient filial duty)
bed of straw and pillow of clay (idiom) / the correct etiquette for a filial son during the mourning period

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