futon

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈfuːtɒn/    美 /ˈfutɑn/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A thin mattress of tufted cotton or similar material, placed on a floor or on a raised, foldable frame as a bed.
    — The Japanese bed is the floor, with a wooden box under the neck for a pillow and a futon for a covering. To the foreigner the Japanese landlord allows five or six futons, or cotton-wadded comforters, and they make a tolerable mattress, although not springy, and rather apt to be damp and musty.
  2. A round cushion used for Zen meditation, traditionally made of woven bulrush leaves.
  3. A specific kind of sofa-bed, with a fixed cushion that forms a mattress when folded down and a sofa when folded up.
    — I was 18 years old, sleeping on a futon, cooking on a George Foreman grill and showering at a friend's house every few days.

词形变化

futons plural futon plural

词汇关系

衍生词
minifuton

词源

Borrowed from Japanese 布団 (futon), in turn from Middle Chinese 蒲團 (MC bu dwan, “meditation cushion”) (compare Mandarin 蒲团 (pútuán)), from 蒲 (bu, “bulrush, cattail”) + 團 (dwan, “sphere, round object”) from the way the original cushion was round and made from woven bulrushes.
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