刚
gāng HSK2

hard

刚 剛 gāng
just adverb
indicates that an action or situation occurred a very short time ago; only a moment ago

刚开始我相信了她。

gāng kāi​shǐ wǒ xiāng​xìn le tā.

I believed her at first.

你刚说他什么都能吃。

nǐ gāng shuō tā shén​me dōu néng chī.

You just said he could eat anything.

exactly adverb
precisely at a certain point in time, space, or degree; just right
hard noun
physically hard or strong
barely adverb
only just; reaching a certain level or amount with no room to spare
surname
a Chinese surname
resolute
firm or unyielding in character or temperament; upright

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Frequency
Character
Written text
621st most common 334.0 per million
Movie subtitles
253rd most common 668.8 per million appears in 92% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
324.6 per million appears in 71% of films
Written text
225.3 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 3
HSK 3.0
Level 2
Traditional
剛
Strokes
6
Unicode
U+521A

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)