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
Chinese houses are not heated as ours are, though the flues from the cooking fire, running under the brick kang, give some heat, too much at times.
From New Forces in Old China An Inevitable Awakening by Arthur Judson Brown
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