病床
bìng chuáng
Pinyin

Definition

病床
 - 
bìng chuáng
  1. hospital bed
  2. sickbed

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

床
chuáng
  1. 1 bed
  2. 2 couch
  3. 3 classifier for beds
  4. 4 classifier: 张 zhāng
生病
shēng bìng
  1. 1 to fall ill
病
bìng
  1. 1 illness
  2. 2 classifier: 场 cháng
  3. 3 disease
  4. 4 to fall ill
  5. 5 defect
起床
qǐ chuáng
  1. 1 to get out of bed
  2. 2 to get up
上床
shàng chuáng
  1. 1 to go to bed
  2. 2 (coll.) to have sex

Idioms (20)

一病不起
yī bìng bù qǐ
  1. 1 to fall gravely ill, never to recover (idiom)
久病成良医
jiǔ bìng chéng liáng yī
  1. 1 long illness makes the patient into a good doctor (idiom)
切中时病
qiè zhòng shí bìng
  1. 1 to hit the target where it hurts (idiom); fig. to hit home
  2. 2 to hit the nail on the head (in an argument)
同床异梦
tóng chuáng yì mèng
  1. 1 lit. to share the same bed with different dreams (idiom); ostensible partners with different agendas
  2. 2 strange bedfellows
  3. 3 marital dissension
同病相怜
tóng bìng xiāng lián
  1. 1 fellow sufferers empathize with each other (idiom); misery loves company

Sample Sentences

久病床前无孝子，听过吧？我自认算是孝顺了，很多人可是把爸妈扔在医院就算了的。
jiǔbìng chuánqián wú xiàozǐ ，tīng guo ba ？wǒ zìrèn suàn shì xiàoshùn le ，hěn duō rén kě shì bǎ bàmā rēng zài yīyuàn jiù suànle de 。
Son: You've heard of the saying, there's no such thing as a filial son when it comes to chronic illnesses, yeah? I think I still count as a filial son, other people put their parents in a home and forget about them.
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