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Coffee in Chinese

coffee · HSK 2

咖啡 kā fēi

  1. 咖 kā coffee
  2. 啡 fēi used for the sound "fei"

Counted with 杯: 一杯咖啡 yì bēi kāfēi

我每天早上喝一杯咖啡。 I drink a cup of coffee every morning.

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How do you say coffee in Chinese?

Coffee in Chinese is 咖啡 (kā fēi).

Which word should I use?

Start with the first one: it is the easiest on the HSK list. The others say it too, often in a more formal way or for a narrower sense; each one’s page has real sentences that show how it is used.

Where do these words come from?

The CC-CEDICT dictionary’s meanings for the official HSK word list. A word is shown for an English word when that is one of its first meanings; the easiest word whose first meaning it is comes first.

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