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刚好

gāng hǎo

HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word Traditional 剛好

刚好 (gāng hǎo) means "just; exactly; to happen to be". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 刚好 means

1. just
2. exactly
3. to happen to be

The characters in 刚好

• 刚gāng(literary) hard; firm; strong; exactly; precisely; barely; only just
• 好hǎogood; appropriate; proper; all right!

Example sentences

• 他刚好准时到校。
  He got to school just in time.
• 他们刚好不在那里。
  It so happened that they were not there.
• 汤姆刚好准时到了。
  Tom showed up just in time.
• 你来的时候我刚好要走。
  Nǐ lái de shíhou wǒ gānghǎo yào zǒu.
  I was about to leave when you came in.
• 那时我们刚好就在伦敦。
  Nàshí wǒmen gānghǎo jiù zài Lúndūn.
  It happened that we were in London.
• 上个礼拜天我刚好有空。
  Shàngge Lǐbàitiān wǒ gānghǎo yǒukòng.
  It happened that I was free last Sunday.

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