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Kang
Definitions
- 1 A surname.; A surname from Korean.
- 2 A surname.; A surname from Chinese.
- 3 A surname.; Alternative form of Kangabam surname of Meitei origin alt-of, alternative
- 4 A surname.; Alternative form of Kangjam surname of Meitei origin alt-of, alternative
- 5 A surname.; Alternative form of Kangujam surname of Meitei origin alt-of, alternative
- 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.
"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."
- 2 Clipping of kangaroo. abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, informal
- 3 A large Chinese water jar.
- 1 To appropriate the history of another ethnicity or country, in particular an empire or a civilization. transitive
- 2 To appropriate someone else's work. slang
- 3 To mock or satirize a popular but discredited Afrocentric theory claiming that sub-Saharan Africans were descended from or related to ancient Egyptians. intransitive, transitive
Etymology
Borrowed from Chinese 炕.
From the Internet meme we wuz kangz, with the word kang itself ultimately from king, referring to the pharaohs, from which Afrocentrist nationalists claim to be descended.
Online alias of an XDA-Developers.com user who appropriated the work of other users.
Borrowed from Korean 강(姜) (Gang), Mandarin 康 (Kāng) or Hokkien 江 (Kang).
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