床
ゆか
hepburn yuka
floor
Part of speech · noun
Pattern visualization
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Examples
- 床に座ります。I sit on the floor.
- 床が冷たいです。The floor is cold.
Collocations
床 (yuka, floor)床下 (yukashita, under-floor)床暖房 (yuka danbou, underfloor heating)寝床 (nedoko, sleeping spot — different reading)フローリング (furooringu, flooring — loanword)
Mnemonic
床 yuka — central to Japanese housing. Japanese culture is 床座 (yukaza, floor-sitting): sit, sleep, eat on the floor — contrasting chair-and-table (椅子座, isuza) systems. Surfaces vary: 畳 (tatami), wood flooring, hot 床暖房 (underfloor heating). Same kanji 床 (とこ, toko) shifts reading for "bed/bedding": 床に就く (toko ni tsuku, retire to bed), 寝床 (nedoko, sleeping place). Two readings split the kanji into space (yuka) vs bedding (toko). 床暖房 underfloor heating spread in 1990s Japan partly influenced by Korean ondol — comparative vocabulary of domestic warmth.
Quick check
How do 床's two readings yuka/toko split in meaning?