Chinese Word of the Day

咖啡
kā fēi

coffee

Definitions

Chinese > English
咖啡	kāfēi
1. n. coffee
煮咖啡 - to make coffee
濃咖啡 - strong coffee
現磨咖啡 - freshly ground coffee
特色咖啡 - specialty coffee
阿拉伯咖啡 - Arabian coffee
能取代咖啡的飲品 - a drink that can replace coffee
我要喝杯咖啡提提神。 - I'd like a cup of coffee to refresh myself.
2. usage. Just like the English term coffee, 咖啡 can refer to coffee generically, as well as coffee beans, ground coffee, coffee powder or a cup of coffee specifically. See the derived terms listed below for the
English > Chinese
coffee
1. 名词. 咖啡
Components
咖	kā
1. Only used in 咖啡, short=y
2. Only used in 咖喱, , 咖哩
3. (chiefly Taiwan slang) character; role
4. Only used in 咖咖
5. (def-uncertain, zh, nohypothesis=1)
啡	fēi
1. (zh-used2, t)
咖啡 - coffee
嗎mǎ啡 - morphine
2. (chiefly Cantonese) Short for 咖啡 coffee
齋啡 - black coffee
3. (chiefly Cantonese) brown
4. (Min Dong, dialectal Hakka) to spit
5. Variant of 淝
淝	féi
1. (Cantonese) to spray, to shoot (a liquid, bullets)
你淝fe4 到成seng4 個袋濕嗮。 - You sprayed the bag all wet.
快啲開槍淝fe4 佢啦！ - Quick, shoot at him!
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