(gāng) - just, just now, only in Mandarin
gāngTraditional: 剛
Translation
just, just now, only
Word origin
A phono-semantic compound: the 刂 'knife' radical and 冈 (gang) as phonetic. The character originally meant 'hard, firm' and is used as an adverb 'just now, only just'.
- Origin
- phono-semantic compound
- Root
- 刂 (knife radical) + 冈 (gang, phonetic)
Stroke order
刚
Examples
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He just got home.
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I just finished eating.
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She just walked out the door.
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I had just got home when I got a call.
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She has only just learned to drive.
Where this fits
Appears in 2 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 刚.
Used in
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