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亢

kàng

Character

What 亢 means

1. high
2. overbearing
3. excessive

Other readings

亢 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• Kàngsurname Kang; Kang, one of the 28 constellations

Example sentences

• 他的声音高亢。
  Tā de shēngyīn gāokàng.
  His voice is loud.

Words starting with 亢

• 亢奋kàng fènexcited; stimulated
• 亢旱kàng hànsevere drought (literary)
• 亢直kàng zhíupright and unyielding (literary)
• 亢进kàng jìnhyperfunction (medical)

Words containing 亢

• 高亢gāo kànghigh-pitched and penetrating (musical instrument, voice etc); high-spirited…
• 甲亢jiǎ kànghyperthyroidism; abbr. for 甲状腺功能亢进
• 不卑不亢bù bēi bù kàngneither servile nor overbearing (idiom); neither obsequious nor supercilious
• 不亢不卑bù kàng bù bēineither haughty nor humble; neither overbearing nor servile…
• 甲状腺功能亢进jiǎ zhuàng xiàn gōng néng kàng jìnhyperthyroidism; abbr. to 甲亢

Characters that look like 亢

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 丸wánball; pellet; pill
• 冗rǒngextraneous; redundant; superfluous

Sounds the same

Read kàng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 抗to resist; to fight; to defy
• 炕kang (a heatable brick bed); to bake; to dry by the heat of a fire
• 伉spouse; big and tall; strong
• 钪scandium (chemistry)
• 囥(dialect) to hide; to conceal
• 犺fierce dog