炕 — Chinese character
炕
kàng
the brick-bed in northern China
- Pinyin
- kàng
- Radical
- 86 ⽕ (Fire)
- Strokes
- 8
- Components
- 火 亢
- Formation
- pictophonetic — fire; meaning component 火; sound component 亢
Common words with 炕
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 土炕 | tǔ kàng | heated brick common bed |
| 尿炕 | niào kàng | to wet the bed |
| 炕床 | kàng chuáng | heatable brick bed |
| 落炕 | lào kàng | to be laid up in bed with illness |
| 铺炕 (鋪炕) | pū kàng | to make a bed; to lay bedding |
English words written with 炕
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.