Kang

Quick meaning: Kang is a noun meaning A traditional long platform of brick, clay or concrete, used for heating in colder parts of China and suitable for sleeping on at night.

Meaning

A traditional long platform of brick, clay or concrete, used for heating in colder parts of China and suitable for sleeping on at night.

More Meanings

1. A large Chinese water jar.
2. (informal) Clipping of kangaroo.
3. (Internet slang) Nonstandard form of king
4. (transitive, India) To appropriate the history of another ethnicity or country, in particular an empire or a civilization.
5. (Android programming, slang) To appropriate someone else's work.
6. (transitive, intransitive) To mock or satirize a popular but discredited Afrocentric theory claiming that sub-Saharan Africans were descended from or related to ancient Egyptians.

Example Sentences

Why is it built this way? Oh, it's a kang. It's heated from underneath, like an oven. Kang? What is a kang for? A community bed. You'll find them in every inn in north China. We've got lots of rooms, but when winter comes, this is the bed everybody'll be in. You mean togther? Thirty, forty, fifty at a time. All fully-clothed and ignoring each other. It gets cold here you'll find out.

Word Forms

• kangs
• k'ang
• kanging
• kanged

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