kang
/ˈkɑŋ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.55 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A traditional long platform of brick, clay or concrete, used for heating in colder parts of China and suitable for sleeping on at night.
noun
Nonstandard form of king
verb
To appropriate the history of another ethnicity or country, in particular an empire or a civilization.
Indian usage; Transitive verb
verb
To mock or satirize a popular but discredited Afrocentric theory claiming that sub-Saharan Africans were descended from or related to ancient Egyptians.
Intransitive verb; Transitive verb
name
A surname.
Example Sentences
- "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."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: 炕, ^康, 江
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈkɑŋ/
- British English: /ˈkæŋ/
Usage
Inflected Forms
Homonyms
kong (cot-caught merger) (some accents)
king (thank-think merger)