gāng

(literary) hard; firm; strong; exactly; precisely; barely; only just

adverb HSK 3.0 · Band 3 trad. 剛

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Build with these blocks

Chinese words snap together like bricks. Every word below shares a character with this one, so you are already halfway to knowing it.

See it in sentences

他刚走了。

He just left.

我刚到家。

I just got home.