双层床 (shuāng céng chuáng) — bunk beds

Definition

noun

bunk beds

Measure word · 张

双层床。
Wǒ men sù shè lǐ yǒu yì zhāng shuāng céng chuáng.
Our dormitory has a bunk bed.
双层床。
Liǎng gè hái zi shuì zài shuāng céng chuáng de shàng pù hé xià pù.
Two children sleep on the top and bottom bunks of the bunk bed.
双层床，。
Zhè zhǒng shuāng céng chuáng hěn jiē shi, néng shuì liǎng gè dà rén.
This kind of bunk bed is sturdy and can hold two adults.

Compound word

构词法gòucífǎ

偏正piānzhèngModifier + head

The first part narrows down the second: it says what kind of thing the head is.

双层double layer

偏正Modifier + head

双 means double, 层 means layer, and 床 means bed, describing a bed with two levels.

Characters in this word

Two or more meaningful parts placed together so that their meanings combine into a new one.

又又双

双 is made of two 又 parts side by side. Repeating 又 gives the sense of a pair.

Most characters — around four in five — are built this way: one part hints at the meaning, the other at the pronunciation.

This origin belongs to the traditional form 層; 层 is its simplified writing.

尸曾層

Meaning part形符xíngfú

Sound part声符shēngfú

曾

Same sound today

The traditional form 層 uses 尸 for the meaning and 曾 for the sound; the simplified 层 is a later abbreviation.

Two or more meaningful parts placed together so that their meanings combine into a new one.

广木床

The 床 shape combines 广, a house, and 木, tree, to show a wooden bed inside a house.