刚 gāng
- Strokes
- 6
- Radical
- 刂 — knife
- Made of
- 冈 ridge or crest of hill 刂 knife
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
刚才
gāngcái
just now
Characters in this word
才 cái
- Strokes
- 3
- Radical
- 扌 — hand
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
Example phrases
- 刚才下雨了。 Gāng cái xià yǔ le. It rained just now.
- 我刚才来了。 Wǒ gāng cái lái le. I came just now.
- 刚才你在哪？ Gāng cái nǐ zài nǎ? Where were you just now?