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咖啡

kāfēi

coffee

HSK 3 · Topic “Food and drinks”
A steaming cup on a saucer
Memory picture

Characters in this word

咖 kā

Strokes
8
Radical
口 — mouth
Made of
口 mouth 加 to add to, to increase, to augment
How it's built
Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
More about the character 咖

啡 fēi

Strokes
11
Radical
口 — mouth
Made of
口 mouth 非 not, negative, non-
How it's built
Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
More about the character 啡

Example phrases

  • 我想喝咖啡。 Wǒ xiǎng hē kā fēi. I want to drink coffee.
  • 咖啡有点苦。 Kā fēi yǒu diǎn kǔ. The coffee is a little bitter.
  • 这杯咖啡热。 Zhè bēi kā fēi rè. This cup of coffee is hot.

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