King, queen, double, single - bed sizes in Chinese

[tooironic]

How to translate bed sizes in Chinese?

 

Double bed (雙人床) and single bed (單人床) are easy, but how about king and queen sizes?

 

I've come across two different translations:

 

King-size bed: 特大床 or 國王床

Queen-size bed: 大床 or 天后床

 

Which do you think is more acceptable? Or do you have a better translation?

 

Thanks.

[skylee]

for reference -> http://www.simmons.com.hk/cn/beds/catalogue/retail.pdf#page=8

 

PS - This, too -> http://www.royalplaza.com.hk/chi/accommodations/royalclubsuite

 

I think 帝后雙人床 and 帝皇雙人床 sound ok.

[tooironic]

Thanks Skylee. Here are the hits I've got on Google for the translations:

 

"特大床" 972k
"大床" 5.6m
"國王床" 47k
"天后床" 4k
"帝皇雙人床" 24k
"帝后雙人床" 173

 

With that in mind I think I'll stick to 特大床 and 大床 as reference translations.

[陳德聰]

Perhaps you can add 特大号床 (932k) and 大号床 (1.3M) to your numbers and strengthen up that intuition you've got ;)
 

Might be worth noting that 帝皇雙人床 and other royalty-related names are probably the type of too-literal translation that happens when you ignore what words are already existing for the same item.

 

I've also heard 加大号床 (1.1M on google but near non-existent on baidu), and noticed that 大床 also can refer to 拔步床.

 

Just my two cents.