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charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *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
hospital bed / sickbed
HSK 7-9
to fold / collapsible; folding (bicycle, antenna, bed etc)
HSK 7-9
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *繃* | 繃* | *繃
to draw tight; to stretch taut / to tack (with thread or pin) / (bound form) embroidery hoop / (bound form) woven bed mat
HSK 7-9
bed (in hospital, hotel, train etc) / berth / bunk
HSK 7-9
(orthographic borrowing from Japanese 民宿 "minshuku") property rented via Airbnb or similar platform; guesthouse; bed-and-breakfast; homestay; pension
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.
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *炕* | 炕* | *炕
kang (a heatable brick bed) / to bake / to dry by the heat of a fire
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *鋪* | 鋪* | *鋪
plank bed / place to sleep / shop / store / (old) relay station
one person / single (room, bed etc)
ill in bed; bed-ridden
Lop Nor, former salt lake in Xinjiang, now a salt-encrusted lake bed
a coal bed / a coal seam
bed
bunk beds
(bed) sheet / envelope for a padded coverlet / CL:
to go to sleep / to go to bed (literary)
bed sheet / CL: 條|条, , 張|张,
to go to bed / to retire for the night
double bed
sofa bed / sleeper sofa
to lie in bed / bedridden / bed
to wet the bed
single bed / CL: 張|张
bed and bamboo sleeping mat / (fig.) bed as a place for intimacy
to have a rest / to stay for the night / to go to bed / to sleep
(traditional bedding) quilt wrapped around the body as a tube / (contemporary) bedding; bed cover
to toss about in bed / from person to person / indirectly / to wander
bed-wetting
to make a bed / to lay bedding
lit. to fear the wolf in front and the tiger behind (idiom) / fig. to be full of needless fears / reds under the beds
to go to bed / (coll.) to have sex
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
charactercopypronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *幮* | 幮* | *幮
a kind of mosquito net / bed curtain
bed pan
early to bed, early to rise; to keep early hours
frightening words to scare people (idiom); alarmist talk / reds under the beds
to toss and turn restlessly (in the bed)
to make a bed / to lay bedding
to make one's bed on the floor
bunk bed
a couch / a narrow bed
to be industrious, rising early and going to bed late
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
to have difficulties sleeping in a bed other than one's own
the Emperor's bed
lit. to share the same bed with different dreams (idiom); ostensible partners with different agendas / strange bedfellows / marital dissension
sunken flower-bed
to cut the feet to fit the shoes (idiom); to force sth to fit (as to a Procrustean bed) / impractical or inelegant solution
to seize a camp / to surprise the enemy in bed
to change one's viewpoint / to turn from side to side (in bed)
to go down to the fields / to get up from bed / to leave one's sickbed / to be born
drawer / stackable cooking vessel / woven mat on a bed frame or chair / woven window screen
vegetable field / vegetable bed
camp bed / bivouac
heatable brick bed
to have a lie-in / to dawdle in bed
bed urinal / chamber pot
to share the bed / (fig.) to be married
bier / bed kept as it was when the deceased was alive
euphemism for sexual intercourse / to go to bed with sb
charactercopypronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *桯* | 桯* | *桯
bed side stand
rectangular frame with a palm fiber mat woven across it (placed on a bed frame as the sleeping surface)
to conduct a bed check
bed of straw and pillow of clay (idiom) / the correct etiquette for a filial son during the mourning period
pillow mat / pillow and mat / bed
flower bed
seeing to bed in the evening and visiting in the morning (ancient filial duty)
charactercopypronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *笫* | 笫* | *笫
bamboo mat / bed mat
rice seedling bed
charactercopypronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *裯* | 裯* | *裯
bed curtain / coverlet
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
heated brick common bed
vegetable field / vegetable bed
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)
to be laid up in bed with illness
a common bed (to sleep many)
cold pillow and lonely bed (idiom); fig. cold and solitary existence
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.
flower bed
hotel room with one double (or queen or king) bed
fitted bed sheet
the person who shares one's bed; partner; spouse
wife, kids and a warm bed (idiom) / the simple and good life
bunk bed
to make a mess / to mess with / to be wild / to sleep around / to jump into bed
flower bed / flower terrace / flower stand
traditional-style canopy bed
foundation (of building) / bed (e.g. bedrock) / substrate
stratified / bedded (geology)
bed curtain / mosquito net
skills in bed / sexual prowess
enemy agents in our midst / reds under the beds
river bed / channel
to live (one's life) well / (slang) to be good in bed

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