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plural kangs
A traditional long platform of brick, clay or concrete, used for heating in colder parts of China and suitable for sleeping on at night. quotations examples
Why is it built this way?Oh, it's a kang. It's heated from underneath, like an oven.Kang? What is a kang for?A community bed. You'll find them in every inn in north China. We've got lots of rooms, but when winter comes, this is the bed everybody'll be in.You mean togther?Thirty, forty, fifty at a time. All fully-clothed and ignoring each other. It gets cold here you'll find out.
1958, 29:45 from the start, in The Inn of the Sixth Happiness
A large Chinese water jar. examples
(informal) Clipping of kangaroo. examples
third-person singular simple present kangs, present participle kanging, simple past and past participle kanged
(Android programming, slang) To appropriate someone else's work.
plural kangs or kangz
(humorous) Pronunciation spelling of king. examples