Memory phrase for the character: 刚

刚

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Meaning hard, firm, enduring, just, barely

Pronunciation

gāng

Explanation

Left: hill 冈 (image of a hill), right: cutting/knife 刂

Mnemonic
 
(Is probably a gristle/cartilage in the meat?) A "hill" (= a thickening) is for cutting with a knife: particularly hard.

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.
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 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
刚刚 gāng gāng  

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