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kang

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A traditional long platform of brick, clay or concrete, used for heating in colder parts of China and suitable for sleeping on at night.

Other meanings

2. noun

A large Chinese water jar.

3. verb

To appropriate the history of another ethnicity or country, in particular an empire or a civilization.

4. verb

To mock or satirize a popular but discredited Afrocentric theory claiming that sub-Saharan Africans were descended from or related to ancient Egyptians.

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