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The character '床' originates from its traditional form '牀', which etymologically combines the component '爿', pictographically representing a bed frame, with '木' for wood, directly indicating its initial meaning as a wooden sleeping platform. A structural alteration later incorporated the '广' radical to imply a sheltered or enclosed area, while still including '木', yielding the modern form that conceptually associates the bed with a domestic interior. From this core sense of a bed, the term's application gradually broadened to denote various raised, flat surfaces such as the traditional heated kang or even geological strata, illustrating a semantic extension aligned with changing functional and cultural contexts.
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这是我的床。
这张床很舒服。
我把书放在床上。
床单需要洗了。
他每天整理床铺。
如果累了，你可以躺在床上休息。
因为昨天睡得太晚，所以今天起床困难。
虽然新床的价格很贵，但是它的质量确实很好。