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(coll.) coffee (loanword) · Preferred written form
Preferred written form The two preferred forms differ by a single character. In Taiwan the standard term is 咖逼; on the Mainland it is 咖啡 - both point at “(coll.) coffee (loanword)”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 咖逼、咖啡 for this concept. The Mainland standard is among them - the difference is which form each side makes the default.
咖啡 is HSK 3 vocabulary on the HSK 3.0 list.
Pair source: CC-CEDICT, which tags the Taiwan form as Taiwan usage.
| Taiwan · 台灣 | Mainland · 大陆 | |
|---|---|---|
| Written form | 咖逼 | 咖啡 |
| Reading | ㄎㄚ ㄅㄧ kā bī | kā fēi ㄎㄚ ㄈㄟ |
| Senses | (coll.) coffee (loanword) | (loanword) coffee |
| Syllabus | — | HSK 3 |
| MOE records | 咖逼 · 咖啡 | |
| Dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary | entry → |
| Audio | — | |
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