Amazing Chinese Characters (677) Kang (Heatable Earth Bed) - 炕

 The big seal script of character Kang is

Kang is a traditional earth bed in northern China.

Kang

Model of Kang

The fire under bed to heat the bed all day in the winter, people sleep, talk on the bed.

The left of the character is character Fire, the right is character Hyperactive, here means "more than normal". When you heat the kang, you give more heat to the kang which has more than normal heat to be warm in the winter. 

The small seal script of character Kang is

Similar to big seal script.

The clerical script of character Kang is

The left is character Fire or Radical Fire, the right is character Hyperactive. 

The Pinyin of character Kang is Kang4.