床沿 Origin — Dong Chinese Dictionary

chuángyán

bedside

chuáng bed

Depicts a bed (爿) made from wood (木). Originally written as 爿 or 牀.

pán, qiáng piece of wood

Depicts a bed.

Change in form

Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 爿 than it was in ancient scripts.

木 Meaning component

mù tree

氵 Meaning component

shui, shuǐ water

water

㕣 Sound component

yǎn a marsh at the foot of the hills

Regular Modern

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	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	ywen	lon	go along (a river); follow

《說文》：“沿，緣水而下也。从水，聲。《春秋傳》曰：‘王沿夏。’”