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刚才

gāng cái

HSK 3 2-character word Traditional 剛才

What 刚才 means

1. just now
2. a moment ago

Other readings

刚才 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• gāng cáijust now (variant of {刚才|gāng cái})

The characters in 刚才

• 刚gāng(literary) hard; firm; strong; exactly; precisely; barely; only just
• 才cáiability; talent; sb of a certain type; a capable individual

Example sentences

• 我刚才吐了。
  I just threw up.
• 他刚才到了。
  He had just arrived.
• 我刚才在家。
  I was at home.
• 刚才开始下雪。
  It began snowing just now.
• 我刚才起床了。
  I just got up.
• 我刚才在洗澡.
  I was just in the shower.

Sounds the same

Read gāng cái, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 钢材steel (as raw material); steel sheets, bars, tubes, ingots, wire etc