刚
gāng HSK2

hard

刚 (剛) gāng
just adverb
just, barely, or exactly; indicates a short time ago or meeting a precise requirement

我刚到家，外面就下起大雨了。

wǒ gāng dào jiā, wài​miàn jiù xià​qǐ dà​yǔ le.

I had just reached home when it started raining heavily outside.

hard adjective
hard, firm, or strong in nature or character

他的性格外柔内刚，非常有主见。

tā de xìng​gé wài róu nèi gāng, fēi​cháng yǒu zhǔ​jiàn.

He is gentle on the outside but firm on the inside, with a very strong mind of his own.

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