kāng

common
noun
adjective

Meaning of

糠 means chaff; rice bran; hollow; loose and soft. Pronounced kāng.

  • chaff; rice bran
  • hollow; loose and soft

Character Info

Radical
Strokes17
Components

Stroke Order

Definitions & Examples

Nóng
mín
kāng
yòng
lái
wèi
zhū
 

Farmers use rice bran to feed pigs.

Guò
qióng
rén
kào
chī
kāng
yàn
cài
 

In the past, poor people survived by eating chaff and wild vegetables.

Zhè
shǒu
mín
yáo
chàng
de
shì
kāng
cài
bàn
nián
liáng
de
zi
 

This folk ballad tells of the hard days where people lived on chaff and vegetables for half the year.

kāng
yòng
lái
zhì
zuò
tiān
rán
féi
liào
 

Rice bran can be used to make natural fertilizer.

Jiù
shè
huì
 
hěn
duō
lǎo
bǎi
xìng
guò
zhe
kāng
cài
bàn
nián
liáng
de
shēng
huó
 

In the old society, most ordinary people lived a life where they ate chaff and vegetables for half the year.