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咖啡店 (kā fēi diàn): meaning and stroke order

咖啡店 (kā fēi diàn) means café, coffee shop.

咖啡店

Simplified
咖啡店
Traditional
咖啡店 (same form)
Pinyin
kā fēi diàn

Stroke order of 咖啡店

咖

  • gā used in 咖喱[ga1 li2]
  • kā coffee; class
  • 8 strokes

Stroke by stroke

啡

  • fēi (used in loanwords for its phonetic value)
  • 11 strokes

Stroke by stroke

店

  • diàn inn; old-style hotel (CL:家[jia1]); (bound form) shop; store
  • 8 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 咖啡店

  1. kā fēi diàn
    • café
    • coffee shop

Radicals of the characters

咖
Radical 口 (Kangxi radical 30) · 8 strokes · 口 on the left, 加 on the right
啡
Radical 口 (Kangxi radical 30) · 11 strokes · 口 on the left, 非 on the right
店
Radical 广 (Kangxi radical 53) · 8 strokes · built from 广 and 占

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

咖啡店 in our stories

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  • “我在二号门，旁边有咖啡店。”

    wǒ zài èr hào mén pángbiān yǒu kāfēidiàn

    "I'm at gate two, next to a cafe."

    From the story At the airport HSK 2

  • 星期天下午，方明和叶子在一家咖啡店第一次见面。

    xīngqītiān xiàwǔ Fāng Míng hé Yèzi zài yì jiā kāfēidiàn dì-yī cì jiànmiàn

    On Sunday afternoon Fang Ming and Yezi met for the first time, in a cafe.

    From the story The first date HSK 2

  • 他坐在机场的咖啡店里，越想越难过，觉得自己的运气差到了极点。

    tā zuò zài jīchǎng de kāfēidiàn lǐ yuè xiǎng yuè nánguò juéde zìjǐ de yùnqi chà dào le jídiǎn

    He sat in the airport cafe, feeling worse the more he thought about it, convinced his luck had hit rock bottom.

    From the story The old man who lost his horse HSK 6

Stories using 咖啡店

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).