Also k’ang, khang. [Chinese.] A kind of stove for warming rooms used by the Chinese; also, a brick or wooden erection for sleeping upon, warmed by a fire placed underneath.
1770. Acc. of the Kang, in Phil. Trans., LXI. 62. The parts of a Kang are, 1. a furnace; 2. a pipe for the heat [etc.].
1870. Mem. W. C. Burns, 514. Mr. Burns’s room, with its two chairs, table and khang.
1892. T. M. Morris, Winter N. China, 111. The ground floor was occupied by a k’ang about fourteen feet by six feet.
