IDENTITY
才cáionly then; just; talent
HSK 1Top 100
CORE MEANING
only then; just; talent
- Part of speech
- adverb
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.only then; just nowHSK1
- 2.talentHSK3
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 手hand radical (shǒu)
- strokes
- 3
- Structure
- single structure
- IDS sequence
- 才
USAGE
Common words
刚才gāngcáijust now
人才réncáitalented person
Graded examples
我才到家。Wǒ cái dào jiā.HSK2
I just got home.
RELATIONS
Lookalike — don’t mix up
- 寸
LEARNING
Memory aid
A sprout just breaking the ground — only now, just barely; talent budding.
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #100
- Memory aid
- imagery
TRUST & SOURCES
- Reviewed by
- AI-assisted editorial review
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-15
Sources
- CC-CEDICT 2026-01-01
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