VocabularyHSK 3 · core

咖啡

kāfēi

coffee

Part of speech · noun

Pattern visualization

no decomposition available

Examples

  1. 我喝咖啡。
    I drink coffee.
  2. 一杯咖啡多少钱?
    How much for a coffee?

Collocations

一杯咖啡喝咖啡黑咖啡

Mnemonic

咖啡 kāfēi "coffee" — phonetic transliteration of English "coffee". Both 咖 and 啡 carry the 口 (mouth) radical, signaling loanwords. Measure: 杯 bēi (cup). Korean/Japanese use phonetic spellings.

Quick check

  1. Common radical in 咖啡?

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