上床
shàng chuáng
Pinyin

Definition

上床
 - 
shàng chuáng
  1. to go to bed
  2. (coll.) to have sex

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

shǎng
shàng bān
  1. 1 to go to work
  2. 2 to be on duty
  3. 3 to start work
  4. 4 to go to the office
zǎo shang
  1. 1 early morning
  2. 2 classifier: 个 gè
wǎn shang
  1. 1 evening
  2. 2 night
  3. 3 classifier: 个 gè
  4. 4 in the evening
qǐ chuáng
  1. 1 to get out of bed
  2. 2 to get up

Idioms (20)

一哭二闹三上吊
yī kū èr nào sān shàng diào
  1. 1 to make a terrible scene (idiom)
  2. 2 to throw a tantrum
一条绳上的蚂蚱
yī tiáo shéng shàng de mà zha
  1. 1 lit. grasshoppers tied together with a piece of string (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. people who are in it together for better or worse
  3. 3 people who will sink or swim together
三天不打,上房揭瓦
sān tiān bù dǎ , shàng fáng jiē wǎ
  1. 1 three days without a beating, and a child will scale the roof to rip the tiles (idiom)
  2. 2 spare the rod, spoil the child
上一次当,学一次乖
shàng yī cì dàng , xué yī cì guāi
  1. 1 to take sth as a lesson for next time (idiom)
  2. 2 once bitten, twice shy
上下其手
shàng xià qí shǒu
  1. 1 to raise and lower one's hand (idiom); to signal as conspiratorial hint
  2. 2 fig. conspiring to defraud

Sample Sentences

我也是。可能今天玩得太累了,我们上床躺一会儿吧!
wǒ yě shì 。kěnéng jīntiān wán de tài lèi le ,wǒmen shàngchuáng tǎng yīhuǐr ba !
Me too. Maybe we're just tired from being out today. Let's go lay down for a bit!
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有时候不小心把“上船”说成“上床”。
yǒushíhou bù xiǎoxīn bǎ “shàngchuán ”shuō chéng “shàngchuáng ”。
Sometimes if you're not careful you might say "shang chuang [to go to bed]" instead of "shang chuan [to get on a boat]."
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