kang
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of kang
From the Chinese word kàng
Example Sentences
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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
Other scrawls eulogise him, and assure me: "Whoever sleeps upon this kang, sleeps in peace."
From The Fulfilment of a Dream of Pastor Hsi's The Story of the Work in Hwochow by Cable, Mildred
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