Chinese symbol for “husk”
糠
kāng
husk; (of a radish etc) spongy (and therefore unappetising)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for husk is 糠 (kāng), defined as: husk; (of a radish etc) spongy (and therefore unappetising).
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “husk”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 稃 | fū | husk; outside shell of grain |
| 谷壳 (穀殼) | gǔ ké | husk (of rice etc); chaff |
| 颖 (穎) | yǐng | head of grain; husk |
| 碾 | niǎn | stone roller; roller and millstone |
| 包衣 | bāo yī | capsule (containing medicine); husk (of corn) |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 糠.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 米糠 | mǐ kāng | rice bran |
| 糠醛 | kāng quán | furfural (chemistry) |
| 糠疹 | kāng zhěn | pityriasis (medicine) |
| 糟糠 | zāo kāng | chaff, husks, distillers' dregs etc (food eaten by the poor); (fig.) rubbish |
| 筛糠 (篩糠) | shāi kāng | to sift chaff; (fig.) to shake all over |
| 糠秕 | kāng bǐ | same as 秕糠 (bǐ kāng) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “husk”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.