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糠

kāng
noun #39,507

Meanings

  1. 1 chaff; bran; husk
  2. 2 (of a radish etc.) spongy and dried out

Examples

HSK 7-9
苦日子里，人们半年靠糠菜充饥。
Kǔrìzi lǐ, rénmen bànnián kào kāngcài chōngjī.
In hard times people ate chaff and wild greens for half the year.
HSK 7-9
这个萝卜糠了，不好吃。
Zhège luóbo kāng le, bù hǎochī.
This radish has gone spongy inside and doesn't taste good.

Tips

usage
Besides meaning rice bran, 糠 works as a verb/adjective for vegetables that have dried out and turned spongy inside, as in 'this radish is 糠'.

Components

radical
米 mǐ
rice; grain
米 is the rice radical, marking 糠 as the husk left over when grain is milled.
phonetic
康 kāng
healthy; at ease
康 gives the exact sound kāng. The bare 康 was in fact the original way to write 'chaff' before the rice radical was added for clarity.

Stroke Order

糠 kāng