剛好

See also: 刚好

Chinese

		hard; firm; strong hard; firm; strong; just; barely; exactly	good; well; be fond of
trad. (剛好)		剛	好
simp. (刚好)		刚	好

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): gānghǎo

  (Zhuyin): ㄍㄤ ㄏㄠˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gong¹ hou²
• Jin (Wiktionary): jion¹ hau²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: gānghǎo
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄤ ㄏㄠˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: ganghǎo
    • Wade–Giles: kang¹-hao³
    • Yale: gāng-hǎu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ganghao
    • Palladius: ганхао (ganxao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɑŋ⁵⁵ xɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: gong¹ hou²
    • Yale: gōng hóu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gong¹ hou²
    • Guangdong Romanization: gong¹ hou²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɔːŋ⁵⁵ hou̯³⁵/
• Jin
  • (Taiyuan)⁺
    • Wiktionary: jion¹ hau²
    • Sinological IPA (old-style): /t͡ɕiɒ̃¹¹ xau⁵³/

Adjective

剛好

1. just right

Synonyms

• 一定 (yīdìng)
• 停當／停当 (tíngdàng)
• 允 (literary, or in compounds)
• 允當／允当 (yǔndàng) (literary)
• 合宜 (héyí)
• 合手 (héshǒu)
• 合用 (héyòng) (literary or Min Nan)
• 合適／合适 (héshì)
• 啱 (ngaam¹) (Cantonese, Hakka)
• 妥 (tuǒ)
• 妥善 (tuǒshàn)
• 妥帖 (tuǒtiē)
• 妥當／妥当
• 安帖 (āntiē)
• 定當／定当 (dìngdàng)
• 對勁／对劲 (duìjìn) (colloquial)
• 對路／对路 (duìlù) (colloquial)
• 對頭／对头
• 得宜 (déyí) (literary)
• 得當／得当 (dédàng)
• 得體／得体 (détǐ)
• 恰當／恰当 (qiàdàng)
• 拄仔好 (Hokkien)
• 拄好 (Hokkien)
• 的當／的当 (dídàng)
• 相宜 (xiāngyí)
• 相當／相当 (xiāngdāng)
• 耐 (literary)
• 貼切／贴切 (tiēqiè)
• 適合／适合 (shìhé)
• 適宜／适宜 (shìyí)
• 適用／适用 (shìyòng)
• 適當／适当 (shìdàng)
• 適量／适量 (shìliàng)
• 配合

 

Adverb

剛好

1. just; exactly

   他剛好準時到校。 [MSC, trad.]
   他刚好准时到校。 [MSC, simp.]

   Tā gānghǎo zhǔnshí dào xiào. [Pinyin]

   He arrived at school exactly on time.

2. it so happened that

   炸彈爆炸的時候，我剛好就在現場。 [MSC, trad.]
   炸弹爆炸的时候，我刚好就在现场。 [MSC, simp.]

   Zhàdàn bàozhà de shíhòu, wǒ gānghǎo jiù zài xiànchǎng. [Pinyin]

   When the bomb exploded, I happened to be there.

   我剛好手邊有事。 [MSC, trad.]
   我刚好手边有事。 [MSC, simp.]

   Wǒ gānghǎo shǒubiān yǒushì. [Pinyin]

   I am in the middle of something. [lit. I have things to do at hand.]

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 恰巧 (“by chance; as it happens”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		會, 適
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		恰巧, 恰好, 恰恰, 碰巧, 剛好, 剛巧, 正好, 正巧, 趕巧, 湊巧
Mandarin	Beijing	正好, 碰巧, 可可兒的
	Langfang	正好兒
	Tangshan	碰巧兒
	Cangzhou	正巧兒
	Baoding	碰巧
	Shijiazhuang	正巧兒
	Daming	正好兒
	Harbin	正巧
	Yantai (Muping)	趕巧兒
	Jinan	正好, 剛好, 碰巧, 湊巧
	Luoyang	碰巧, 湊巧
	Wanrong	剛, 妙, 可妙, 湊妙
	Xi'an	正好, 剛好, 剛好兒, 妙的
	Yinchuan	湊巧, 恰巧
	Lanzhou	將巧
	Xining	正好
	Ürümqi	剛好, 正好, 剛巧, 正巧, 碰巧, 正, 將好兒
	Wuhan	正巧, 恰恰, 神神
	Chengdu	端端, 剛好, 將好, 恰好, 恰恰
	Guiyang	恰巧, 湊巧, 碰巧
	Kunming	剛好, 恰恰的
	Liuzhou	扣到, 扣扣, 正, 碰巧
	Xuzhou	驗好, 驗好兒, 驗巧, 適巧
	Yangzhou	剛好, 剛剛好, 齊巧, 正好, 將好
	Nanjing	正, 將將
	Hefei	正好, 將好, 碰巧
	Nantong	碰巧
Cantonese	Guangzhou	碰啱, 撞啱, 湊啱, 啱好, 啱, 啱啱, 啱啱好, 啱啱線
	Hong Kong	咁啱, 撞啱, 碰啱, 啱啱
	Macau	啱啱
	Guangzhou (Zengcheng)	啱啱好
	Foshan	啱好
	Foshan (Sanshui)	啱啱好
	Foshan (Mingcheng, Gaoming)	啱啱
	Zhongshan (Shiqi)	啱算
	Zhuhai (Qianshan)	啱算
	Jiangmen (Baisha)	啱啱
	Taishan	碰啱
	Heshan (Yayao)	啱啱好
	Dongguan	啱先
	Yangjiang	哏好, 啱
	Xinyi	啱好, 啱啱
Gan	Nanchang	合適, 碰巧
	Lichuan	剛好
	Pingxiang	嵌嵌, 嵌嵌仔, 嵌好, 合式, 緊光
Hakka	Meixian	啱好, 啱啱
	Shenzhen (Shatoujiao)	啱啱
	Zhongshan (Nanlang Heshui)	啱算
	Conghua (Lütian)	啱啱
	Yudu	將好, 剛好
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	堵好, 堵堵好
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	堵好, 堵堵好
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	堵好, 堵堵好
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	堵好, 堵堵好
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	堵好, 堵堵好
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	堵好, 堵堵好
Huizhou	Jixi	剛好
Jin	Taiyuan	剛好, 可可底, 正好, 正巧
	Xinzhou	正好, 嵌好, 嵌好好兒, 嵌嵌兒, 可好, 可好好兒, 可可兒
	Zhangjiakou	剛巧
	Handan	正好兒
Northern Min	Jian'ou	頃頃好
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	正正好, 堵堵好
Southern Min	Xiamen	對對, 拄好, 拄仔好, 注死, 湊拄歁, 千千, 千拄千, 拄巧, 拄拄, 拄拄仔好
	Quanzhou	對對, 拄好, 拄仔好, 湊拄歁, 千千, 千拄千, 拄遷
	Zhangzhou	對對, 拄好, 拄仔好, 拄欸好, 注死, 拄, 死病, 湊拄歁, 湊拄歁仔, 湊巧, 湊歁, 湊歁仔, 千千, 千拄千, 拄仔, 拄拄, 拄拄仔
	Kaohsiung	拄好
	Yilan	拄好
	Changhua (Lukang)	拄好
	Taichung	拄好
	Taichung (Wuqi)	拄好
	Tainan	拄好
	Taitung	拄好
	Hsinchu	拄仔好
	Penghu (Magong)	拄好
	Zhangping	堵堵, 堵好, 堵湊
	Chaozhou	堵堵, 堵好
	Shantou	湊巧, 恰巧, 堵堵, 啱
	Shantou (Chaoyang)	啱
	Jieyang	堵彩, 堵堵好, 甲甲
	Haikou	啱, 啱啱
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	正好
Wu	Shanghai	齊巧, 正好, 正巧, 剛巧, 剛正好, 剛剛好, 正正好好, 貼正, 貼正好, 恰好, 貼准, 恰恰叫, 恰恰好, 眼眼叫, 眼眼調, 扣揢扣, 碰巧, 湊巧, 齊頭 dated, 齊頭好 dated
	Shanghai (Chongming)	正好
	Suzhou	剛巧, 剛正, 剛好, 齊巧, 齊頭, 眼眼調
	Wuxi	齊頭數, 齊巧
	Danyang	湊巧, 齊巧, 剛好, 正好, 齊巧好
	Hangzhou	剛巧, 正巧, 齊巧
	Ningbo	剛剛, 扣好, 扣扣, 候扣, 眼眼叫, 齊巧
	Wenzhou	恰兩恰兒, 恰恰兒, 扣扣, 扣門兒
	Jinhua	頂對, 正好, 正好兒, 剛好
Xiang	Changsha	剛合, 如勢, 獨如, 正好, 恰好
	Loudi	恰好, 正好
	Shuangfeng	正好

• (it so happened that):

• 偏好
• 剛合／刚合 (jian¹ ho⁶) (Xiang)
• 剛巧／刚巧 (gāngqiǎo)
• 千千 (Hokkien)
• 千拄千 (Hokkien)
• 嚴剛／严刚 (ngan² jian¹) (Xiang)
• 嚴合／严合 (ngan² ho⁶) (Xiang)
• 堵堵好 (Hakka)
• 堵好 (Hakka)
• 如勢／如势 (y² shr⁴) (Xiang)
• 恰好 (qiàhǎo)
• 恰巧 (qiàqiǎo)
• 恰恰 (qiàqià)
• 拄仔好 (Hokkien)
• 拄千 (Quanzhou Hokkien)
• 拄好 (Hokkien)
• 拄搪 (Hokkien)
• 拄䢢 (Hokkien)
• 會／会 (literary)
• 正好 (zhènghǎo)
• 正巧 (zhèngqiǎo)
• 湊巧／凑巧 (còuqiǎo)
• 湊拄歁／凑拄歁 (Hokkien)
• 湊拄歁仔／凑拄歁仔 (Zhangzhou Hokkien)
• 湊歁／凑歁 (Zhangzhou Hokkien)
• 碰巧 (pèngqiǎo)
• 趕巧／赶巧 (gǎnqiǎo)
• 䢢拄䢢 (Hokkien)
• 適／适
• 適值／适值 (shìzhí) (literary)
• 頃頃好／顷顷好 (ka̿ing-ka̿ing-hǎu) (Northern Min)

 

Interjection

剛好

1. used by itself to indicate that the correct amount of change has been given