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kang

American  
[kahng] / kɑŋ /

noun

  1. (especially in northern Chinese houses) a masonry or earthen platform at one end of a room, heated in winter by fires underneath and spread with mats for sleeping.


Etymology

Origin of kang

From the Chinese word kàng

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Inside their home, flames crackle beneath a heated platform - called a "kang" - which is their main source of warmth.

From BBC Apr. 2, 2024

From there, she imports the paste for kang huy lay, a pork belly curry that’s a mellow confluence of ginger and garlic, both fresh and pickled, and lulling.

From New York Times May 10, 2018

This was kang hoh, rice vermicelli tangled up with tender pork in a tamarind-soured dry curry from northern Thailand.

From New York Times Nov. 28, 2017

On the palisades in front of the church hang red banners proclaiming the fifth commandment of the Catholic catechism: Huwag kang papatay, it reads.

From Time Jan. 16, 2017

The floor was stone, and part of it, called a kang, was raised like a platform.

From The Little Girl Lost A Tale for Little Girls by Raper, Eleanor

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