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.

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Etymology

Origin of kang

From the Chinese word kàng

Example Sentences

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 children were to wait until they were sure that Ku Nai-nai was asleep, and then squeeze themselves through the window over their kang and come out into the court.

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