■ radical

kàng

high

How it’s built

Pictograph of a person with a line through their legs. Original meaning unclear.

Through the ages

Bronze script

Seal script

Appears in

Characters that use 亢 as a component, most common first.

抗kàngto defy 航hángvessel 坑kēngpit 杭hángford 炕kàngthe brick-bed in northern China 吭kēngthroat 肮āngdirty 沆hàngferry 骯āngdirty

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