Jane is sick in bed.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
卧床
to lie in bed
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to lie in bed
02
bedridden
03
bed
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 卧床 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 卧床 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
He had to stay in bed.
Tom has been sick in bed for three weeks.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 卧床.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 卧床.
Directly before
- 生病卧床1
- 得卧床1
- 病卧床1
Directly after
- 卧床休息1
- 卧床三周1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY
Where this entry comes from
The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
COMMON QUESTIONS
About 卧床
What does 卧床 mean in Chinese?
卧床 (wòchuáng) means to lie in bed.
How do you pronounce 卧床?
卧床 is pronounced wòchuáng.
Is 卧床 an HSK word?
卧床 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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