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炕

kàng

Character

What 炕 means

1. kang (a heatable brick bed)
2. to bake
3. to dry by the heat of a fire

Other readings

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

• kàngold variant of {炕|kàng}

Words starting with 炕

• 炕床kàng chuángheatable brick bed

Words containing 炕

• 土炕tǔ kàngheated brick common bed
• 尿炕niào kàngto wet the bed
• 落炕lào kàngto be laid up in bed with illness
• 铺炕pū kàngto make a bed; to lay bedding
• 老婆孩子热炕头lǎo pó hái zi rè kàng touwife, kids and a warm bed (idiom); the simple and good life

Characters built on 亢

These share the phonetic component 亢 (kàng), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 航hángboat; ship; craft
• 抗kàngto resist; to fight; to defy
• 杭Hángsurname Hang; abbr. for Hangzhou 杭州
• 肮āngused in 肮脏
• 伉kàngspouse; big and tall; strong
• 沆hànga ferry; fog; flowing
• 钪kàngscandium (chemistry)
• 闶kāngused in 闶阆; Taiwan pr. kàng

Characters that look like 炕

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

• 规guīcompass; a rule; regulation
• 统tǒngto gather; to unite; to unify
• 抗kàngto resist; to fight; to defy
• 肮āngused in 肮脏
• 胧lóngused in 朦胧
• 肱gōngupper arm; arm

Sounds the same

Read kàng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 抗to resist; to fight; to defy
• 亢high; overbearing; excessive
• 伉spouse; big and tall; strong
• 钪scandium (chemistry)
• 囥(dialect) to hide; to conceal
• 犺fierce dog