HSK 3.0 Level 3 · Adverbs

刚刚 gānggāng “just now” in Chinese

Traditional 剛剛

What 刚刚 means

  1. just now
  2. a moment ago
  3. just recently
  4. just a moment ago

How to say 刚刚

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale刚gāng1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale刚gāng1st tone, high and level

刚刚 in a sentence

  1. 刚刚有人给你打电话。

    Gānggāng yǒurén gěi nǐ dǎ diànhuà.

    Someone just called you.

    Sentence #2335916 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 刚刚发生了什么？

    Gānggāng fāshēng le shénme?

    What just happened?

    Sentence #3044037 from Tatoeba

  3. 我刚刚吃完早饭。

    Wǒ gānggāng chī wán zǎofàn.

    I’ve just finished breakfast.

    Sentence #3667685 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 刚刚 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 刚 (gāng) with each of its parts in a different colour
刚gānghard; firm; strong
  • 冈ridge or crest of hill · gāngSound part
  • 刂knife form of 刀 · dāoMeaning part

刂 hints at the meaning (knife); 冈 (gāng) hints at the sound. Compare it with gāng.

The character 刚 (gāng) with each of its parts in a different colour
刚gānghard; firm; strong
  • 冈ridge or crest of hill · gāngSound part
  • 刂knife form of 刀 · dāoMeaning part

刂 hints at the meaning (knife); 冈 (gāng) hints at the sound. Compare it with gāng.

How to write 刚刚

刚 6 strokes

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刚刚 (gānggāng) stroke order chart: each stroke of the character in the order you write it
Stroke order chart for 刚刚 (gānggāng). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 刚刚

Words with 刚

刚才gāngcái · just now刚gāng · just

More words: Adverbs & Degree

越来越yuèláiyuè · more and more就要jiùyào · about to只是zhǐshì · only总zǒng · always仅jǐn · only更加gèngjiā · even more共gòng · altogether实际上shíjìshàng · in fact

FAQs

刚刚 (gānggāng) means “just now” or “a moment ago”. It is an HSK 3.0 Level 3 word.
Say it gānggāng: gāng with a 1st tone, then gāng with a 1st tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 刚刚 is written 剛剛. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type ganggang with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 刚刚 from the suggestions. Typing ganggang into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
刚刚 is an HSK 3.0 Level 3 word in the official 2021 syllabus, and it is on our HSK 3.0 Band 3 word list. It is not on the older HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.