床

Readings

• Go-on: じょう (jō)^{←じやう (zyau, historical)}
• Kan-on: そう (sō)^{←さう (sau, historical)}
• Kan’yō-on: しょう (shō, Jōyō)^{←しやう (syau, historical)}
• Kun: ゆか (yuka, 床, Jōyō)、とこ (toko, 床, Jōyō)、ゆかしい (yukashii, 床しい)

Compounds

• 同(どう)床(しょう) (dōshō): sharing a bed

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) ゆか [yùká] (Heiban – [0])^[1][2]
• IPA^(key): [jɯ̟ka̠]

Noun

床(ゆか) • (yuka) 

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

   床(ゆか)を掃(は)く

   yuka o haku

   to sweep the floor

2. a bed
3. (theater) a raised area of a stage where a presenter or musician sits
4. a raised platform erected along the Kamo River in Kyōto in summer, used as an outdoor tea shop or restaurant

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) とこ [tòkó] (Heiban – [0])^[1][2]
• IPA^(key): [to̞ko̞]

Noun

床(とこ) • (toko) 

1. a raised platform roughly 30cm tall used in dirt-floored rooms as a seat
2. a raised area on which to sleep: a bed
3. a sickbed
4. the floor
5. tatami mats
6. the seat of an oxcart
7. short for 床間 / 床の間 (toko no ma): an alcove with a raised floor along one wall of a traditional Japanese living room
8. an alcove with a raised floor used as a study: see 付書院 (tsuke shoin)
9. a box seat, such as at a parade, theater, or stadium
10. short for 床店 (tokomise): a stall with a raised floor used as a store
11. short for 床屋 (tokoya): a barbershop, from how such shops were historically often tokomise
12. short for 床船梁 (toko funabari), 舵床 (kajidoko): the large wooden beam at the very aft of a traditional wood-hulled Japanese ship, upon which the rudder is seated
13. the heel of a plough; the part of the bottom of a plough that touches the ground and guides the ploughshare
14. short for 苗床 (naedoko): a seedbed
15. short for 鉄床, 金床 (kanatoko): an anvil