Chinese symbol for “kang”
炕
kàng
kang (a heatable brick bed); to bake; to dry by the heat of a fire
The closest CC-CEDICT match for kang is 炕 (kàng), defined as: kang (a heatable brick bed); to bake; to dry by the heat of a fire.
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Characters and stroke order
Related words
Other words that share a character 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 |
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.