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Mythic Mandarin

刚才 (gāng cái): meaning and stroke order

刚才 (gāng cái) means just now, a moment ago, just now (variant of 刚才).

刚才

Simplified
刚才
Traditional
剛才, 剛纔
Pinyin
gāng cái

Stroke order of 刚才

刚

  • gāng hard; firm
  • 6 strokes
  • Traditional form: 剛

Stroke by stroke

才

  • cái ability; talent; sb of a certain type
  • cái (variant of 才[cai2]) just now; (variant of 才[cai2]) (before an expression of quantity) only
  • 3 strokes
  • Traditional form: 纔

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 刚才

  1. gāng cái Traditional 剛才
    • just now
    • a moment ago
  2. gāng cái Traditional 剛纔
    • just now (variant of 剛才|刚才[gang1 cai2])

Radicals of the characters

刚
Radical 刀 (Kangxi radical 18) · 6 strokes · 冈 on the left, 刂 on the right
才
Radical 手 (Kangxi radical 64) · 3 strokes

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

刚才 in our stories

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  • 散会的时候已经快中午了。刚才还争得面红耳赤的两派人，一起走进了早市，排在冯阿姨的摊前买豆浆。

    sànhuì de shíhou yǐjīng kuài zhōngwǔ le gāngcái hái zhēng de miànhóng'ěrchì de liǎng pài rén yìqǐ zǒujìn le zǎoshì pái zài Féng āyí de tān qián mǎi dòujiāng

    By the time the meeting broke up it was nearly noon. The two sides who had just been arguing red in the face walked into the market together and queued at Auntie Feng's stall for soy milk.

    From the story The market hearing HSK 7–9 · Level 8

  • 回头看看刚才淋雨的地方，风雨已经过去，晴天也不必太高兴。对一颗平静的心来说，风雨和晴天其实没有什么分别。

    huítóu kànkan gāngcái lín yǔ de dìfang fēngyǔ yǐjīng guòqu qíngtiān yě búbì tài gāoxìng duì yì kē píngjìng de xīn láishuō fēngyǔ hé qíngtiān qíshí méiyǒu shénme fēnbié

    Looking back at where you were caught in the rain: the storm is over, and there's no need to be too delighted by the sunshine either. To a calm heart, storm and sunshine are really no different.

    From the story Neither wind and rain nor sunshine HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 刚才

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).