Japanese Word of the Day

床
ゆか - yuka

floor

Definitions

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床

1. n. the floor (the bottom surface of a room)

床を掃く - to sweep the floor

2. n. a bed

3. n. (theater) a raised area of a stage where a presenter or musician sits

4. n. a raised platform erected along the Kamo River in Kyōto in summer, used as an outdoor tea shop or restaurant

5. n. a raised platform roughly 30cm tall used in dirt-floored rooms as a seat

6. n. a raised area on which to sleep: a bed

7. n. a sickbed

8. n. the floor

9. n. tatami mats

10. n. the seat of an oxcart

11. n. short for 床間 / 床の間: an alcove with a raised floor along one wall of a traditional Japanese living room

12. n. an alcove with a raised floor used as a study: see 付書院

13. n. a box seat, such as at a parade, theater, or stadium

14. n. short for 床店: a stall with a raised floor used as a store

15. n. short for 床屋: a barbershop, from how such shops were historically often tokomise

16. n. short for 床船梁, 舵床: the large wooden beam at the very aft of a traditional wood-hulled Japanese ship, upon which the rudder is seated

17. n. the heel of a plough; the part of the bottom of a plough that touches the ground and guides the ploughshare

18. n. short for 苗床: a seedbed

19. n. short for 鉄床, 金床: an anvil

20. n. sickbed

21. counter. beds

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