炕
kàng

the brick-bed in northern China

炕 kàng
bake noun
to bake or dry something by placing it near a fire or on a heated surface

他把淋湿的棉袄放在火边炕干。

tā bǎ lín​shī de mián'ǎo fàng zài huǒ biān kàng gān.

He put the wet padded coat by the fire to dry.

kang noun
a traditional heatable brick or stone platform used for sleeping and sitting in northern China

全家人围坐在热炕上吃晚饭。

quán jiā​rén wéi​zuò zài rè kàng shàng chī wǎn​fàn.

The whole family sat around the warm heated brick bed for dinner.

Frequency
Character
Written text
2,975th most common 10.1 per million
Movie subtitles
4,865th most common 0.090 per million appears in 0% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
0.090 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
3.23 per million

Details
Strokes
8
Unicode
U+7095

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)