コップ
コップ
hepburn koppu
cup, glass (drinking)
Part of speech · noun
Pattern visualization
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Examples
- コップに水を入れます。I pour water into the cup.
- 紙コップを使います。I use a paper cup.
Collocations
コップ (koppu, cup / glass — for cold drinks)カップ (kappu, cup — coffee, tea)紙コップ (kami koppu, paper cup)グラス (gurasu, drinking glass — wine)湯のみ (yunomi, Japanese tea cup)
Mnemonic
コップ koppu — loaned from Dutch kop ("cup") in pre-Meiji Dutch-studies (蘭学). Loanword trap: コップ (for cold drinks / water / milk) vs カップ (English-loan "cup" for tea/coffee) vs グラス (English-loan "glass" for wine/beer). One container word splits across three loanwords by beverage type — a major learner trap. The Dutch (pre-Meiji) and English (Meiji+) waves arrived in stages and divided the semantic field. Korean and Chinese unify with one word — cognitive split. The word compresses pre-Meiji and Meiji loan history, beverage industry, and daily tableware cluster.
Quick check
Correct Japanese for "coffee cup"?