炕床 Origin — Dong Chinese Dictionary

kàngchuáng

heatable brick bed

kàng the brick-bed in northern China

Phonosemantic compound. 火 represents the meaning and 亢 represents the sound. Simplified form of 匟.

火 Meaning component

huǒ fire

亢 Sound component

kàng, gāng, gēng high

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	Old Chinese
Zhengzhang	kʰaːŋs
	qʰaːŋ

乾也。从火亢聲。

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