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刚刚

gāng gang

Old HSK 4 HSK 3.0 level 3 2-character word Traditional 剛剛

刚刚 (gāng gang) means "just recently". It is an HSK 3.0 level 3 word, and was HSK 4 in the old six-level list.

What 刚刚 means

1. just recently
2. just a moment ago

The characters in 刚刚

• 刚gāng(literary) hard; firm; strong; exactly; precisely; barely; only just
• 刚gāng(literary) hard; firm; strong; exactly; precisely; barely; only just

Example sentences

• 我刚刚吃完。
  I have just finished eating.
• 玛丽刚刚回家。
  Mary has just come home.
• 我刚刚才到的。
  I arrived just now.
• 我爸爸刚刚回家。
  My father has just come home.
• 我刚刚去了邮局。
  I have just been to the post office.
• 她刚刚十二岁了。
  She has just turned twelve.

Where 刚刚 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Time adverbs & temporal expressions (HSK 4), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 4 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read gāng gang correctly.
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