Memory phrase for the character: 刚

刚

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Meaning

hard, firm, enduring, just, barely

Pronunciation

gāng

Explanation

 Left: hill 冈 (part of steel: 钢, showing a bloomery hearth for steel smelting, in which iron ore and charcoal were stacked alternately as a hill), right: cutting/knife 刂

Mnemonic
 
From this hill/oven comes a (steel) knife that is hard & durable.

Radicals

冈 mound, ridge of a mountainWith two crosses 㐅 it is seen as a dragnet/trawl net 网.
刂 cutIt is typically at the right side of the character.




 Vocabulary

刚才 gāng cái  (just) a moment ago; just now; a moment ago
刚刚 gāng gāng  just recently; just a moment ago
刚刚 gāng gāng  just recently; just a moment ago
 

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