刚才

剛才traditional

HSK 3#1149 by frequencyradical 刂

gāng cái["t"]

just now; a moment ago

Examples

他刚才到了。

He had just arrived.

我刚才在家。

I was at home.

Part of the HSK 3 word list.

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Definitions adapted from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0, modified). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Frequency ranks from the BCC corpus. Full credits on the Attributions page.