kang

plural kangs · alternative k'ang

1. A traditional long platform of brick, clay or concrete, used for heating in colder parts of China and suitable for sleeping on at night.

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   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, →OCLC

2. A large Chinese water jar.

plural kangs

1. abbreviationclippinginformalClipping of kangaroo.

plural kangs · plural kangz

1. InternetnonstandardNonstandard form of king

present singular third person kangs · participle present kanging · participle past kanged · past kanged

1. IndiatransitiveTo appropriate the history of another ethnicity or country, in particular an empire or a civilization.
2. intransitivetransitiveTo mock or satirize a popular but discredited Afrocentric theory claiming that sub-Saharan Africans were descended from or related to ancient Egyptians.

present singular third person kangs · participle present kanging · participle past kanged · past kanged

1. slangAndroid programmingTo appropriate someone else's work.

plural Kangs

1. A surname.
   1. A surname from Korean.
   2. A surname from Chinese.
   3. alternativeAlternative form of Kangabam surname of Meitei origin
   4. alternativeAlternative form of Kangjam surname of Meitei origin
   5. alternativeAlternative form of Kangujam surname of Meitei origin