kàng
the brick-bed in northern China
Phonosemantic compound. 火 represents the meaning and 亢 represents the sound. Simplified form of 匟.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 炕
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
to bake | ||
heated brick common bed | ||
bed-wetting | ||
to make a bed |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
2975th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 8 |
Unicode | U+7095 |
Shuowen | “炕，乾也。从火，亢聲。” |
Sources
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