HSK 3.0 · LEVEL 1
起床
To get out of bed; to get up.
Free Chinese vocabulary flashcard · HSK 1
Why does 起床 look like this?
起 (qǐ) consists of '走' (to walk) and '己' (self), suggesting the act of standing up or starting to move. 床 (chuáng) features the '广' (shelter) radical over '木' (wood), representing a piece of wooden furniture found inside a room—a bed! Put together, 'Rising from the Bed' is the literal meaning.