音読み: ショウ
訓読み: とこ・ゆか
画数: 7
部首: 广（まだれ）
Meaning
Floor / Bed.
- 床 — bed
- 床 — floor
- 床の間 — alcove (in a Japanese room)
- 床屋 — barber
- 病床 — sickbed
- 床下 — under the floor / crawl space
床 combines the shelter radical 广（まだれ） with 木 (wood). Picture a wooden platform under a roof — a floor or a bed. From this image come words like 床 and 床. Historically, shop fronts had raised platforms called 床, which is why 床屋 literally “floor-shop” came to mean “barber.”
Think of 屋 — a shop or building — and 床 as the raised platform or floor inside. In 床屋, the “floor/shop” became the place where grooming was done; over time it narrowed to the modern meaning barber. A simple building + floor image makes a solid memory hook.
Forms
起床 — getting up (from bed)