커피
keopi
coffee
Part of speech · noun
Pattern visualization
Syllable → jamo breakdown (RR romanization)
커
ㅋkinitial+ㅓeomedial
피
ㅍpinitial+ㅣimedial
Examples
- 아침마다 커피를 마셔요.I drink coffee every morning.
- 커피 한 잔 어때요?How about a cup of coffee?
Collocations
커피를 마시다커피 한 잔아메리카노
Mnemonic
keopi is a loanword from English "coffee", written in hangul as it sounds. Loanwords are everywhere in modern Korean; they have no hanja and are spelled phonetically. The counter for cups is -jan: keopi han jan (one cup of coffee).
Quick check
Why does keopi have no hanja?