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A large kang shared by the guests of a one-room inn in a then-wild area east of Tonghua, Jilin, as seen by Henry E.M. James in 1887. The kang (Chinese: 炕; pinyin: kàng; Manchu: nahan, Kazakh: кән) is a traditional heated platform, 2 metres or more long, used for general living, working, entertaining and sleeping in the northern part of China, where the winter climate is cold.
Kang, the star Kappa Virginis; Kang bed-stove; K'ang jo fu or the kang, a self-defense technique; KANG-LD, a TV station, San Angelo, Texas, US; KEUS-LD, a TV station, San Angelo, Texas, US, formerly KANG-CA; KANG-TV, a TV station in Waco, Texas, US; Android Open Kang Project, a smartphone operating system
Japanese kamado was their adaptation of buttumak introduced from Korea. [8] [9] The word kamado also has its root in Korean word gama (가마), a synonym of buttumak.The word gama in modern Korean is usually used to refer to kilns, but the usage of the word meaning buttumak can be found in some compounds such as gamasot (literally gama cauldron) referring to the cauldron used on buttumak.
The dol bed, or stone bed, is a manufactured bed that has the same heating effect as ondol. The dol bed industry is estimated to be worth 100 billion South Korean won , comprising 30 to 40 percent of the entire bed industry in South Korea; dol beds are most popular with middle-aged people in their 40s and 50s.
A kang bed-stove is a Chinese ceramic room heater used as the platform for a bed. A Charpai is a traditional Punjabi bed made of tied ropes bordered by a wooden frame. A mourning bed ("illustration") is a formal canopied bed, with the deceased, a wax effigy, or symbols of rank.
Place names that are associated with the Kangchu system are named after former place features such as settlements, (or Chu Kang, Chinese: 厝港), [fn 1] river bases (or Kangkar, Chinese: 港脚) and port (or Kang, Chinese: 港). These terminologies are of Chinese origins, and draws its phonology from the Teochew dialect. [2]
The Urdu Wikipedia (Urdu: اردو ویکیپیڈیا), started in January 2004, is the Standard Urdu-language edition of Wikipedia, a free, open-content encyclopedia. [1] [2] As of 19 February 2025, it has 217,936 articles, 190,727 registered users and 7,544 files, and it is the 54th largest edition of Wikipedia by article count, and ranks 20th in terms of depth among Wikipedias with over ...
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