刚
Meaning
- (literary) hard; firm; strong
- exactly; precisely
- barely; only just
Example sentence
我刚到家。
I only just got home.
The character 刚
刚 is 冈 beside 刂, a knife: hard and unyielding. It is used mostly of time now — 刚才 a moment ago, 刚刚 only just, 他刚走 — where the hardness has worn down into exactness.