刚 剛
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Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
How it used to be written
These are the forms of 剛, the traditional character: 刚 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 15 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).
Examples
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他们刚结婚不久。
They got married recently.
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他刚刚才吃完午饭，不可能会肚子饿。
He cannot be hungry; he has just had lunch.
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他刚到。
He just arrived.
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他刚发表一系列有趣的文章。
He has just published an interesting series of articles.
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他刚回到家。
He just got home.
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他刚好准时到校。
He got to school just in time.