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Chinese symbol for “barista”

咖啡师
kā fēi shī
Traditional: 咖啡師
barista

The closest CC-CEDICT match for barista is 咖啡师 (kā fēi shī), defined as: barista.

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Characters and stroke order

咖 kā
coffee; used in transliterations
radical 30 ⼝ · 8 strokes
啡 fēi
coffee; morphine
radical 30 ⼝ · 11 strokes
师 shī
teacher, professional, master
radical 50 ⼱ · 6 strokes

Traditional forms

Related words

Other words that share a character with 咖啡师.

WordPinyinMeaning
咖啡kā fēi(loanword) coffee; measure word: 杯 (bēi)
咖啡馆 (咖啡館)kā fēi guǎncafé; coffee shop; measure word: 家 (jiā)
咖啡店kā fēi diàncafé; coffee shop
咖啡厅 (咖啡廳)kā fēi tīngcoffee shop
咖啡因kā fēi yīncaffeine (loanword)
咖喱gā lí(loanword) curry
吗啡 (嗎啡)mǎ fēimorphine (loanword)
老师 (老師)lǎo shīteacher

See also: Japanese symbol for “barista”.

Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.