(kā fēi) - coffee in Mandarin

kāfēi

Traditional: 咖啡

HSK 2

#786 of 2,700Core 1000

Translation

coffee

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Word origin

咖啡 means coffee and is a phonetic loan from European 'coffee'. Both characters take the 口 'mouth' radical to mark the syllables as sound transcription, with 加 (jiā) and 非 (fēi) supplying the phonetics.

Origin: loanword
Root: 口 (mouth radical) + 加/非 (phonetics) transcribing 'coffee'
English cognates: coffee

Stroke order

咖

啡

Examples

？

Would you like some coffee?

。

I drink coffee every morning.

。

I drink coffee every morning.

。

The coffee here is very bitter.

咖啡 (kā fēi) means coffee. It is used as a noun in everyday Mandarin speech.

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咖啡: worksheet, infographic and listicle

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This word is taught in chapter 10, lesson 9: 咖啡, 身边, 遇到 and 7 more words.