纔
cái HSK2

silky color

才 (纔) cái
just now adverb
indicates that an action or event has happened very recently

他才刚离开办公室，你现在去追还来得及。

tā cái gāng lí​kāi bàn​gōng​shì, nǐ xiàn​zài qù zhuī hái lái​de​jí.

He just left the office; you can still catch him if you go now.

only adverb
used before an expression of quantity to emphasize that the amount is small

现在才下午三点，我们在这里再坐一会儿吧。

xiàn​zài cái xià​wǔ sān diǎn, wǒ​men zài zhè​lǐ zài zuò yī​huì​r ba.

It's only three in the afternoon; let's sit here for a while longer.

Frequency
Character
Written text
235th most common 939.1 per million
Movie subtitles
179th most common 983.0 per million appears in 99% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
1094.5 per million appears in 97% of films
Written text
593.0 per million

Details
HSK 3.0
Level 2
Simplified
才
Strokes
23
Unicode
U+7E94

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