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Chinese symbol for “caffeine”

咖啡因
kā fēi yīn
caffeine (loanword)

The closest CC-CEDICT match for caffeine is 咖啡因 (kā fēi yīn), defined as: caffeine (loanword).

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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
因 yīn
cause, reason; by; because
radical 31 ⼞ · 6 strokes

Related words

Other words that share a character with 咖啡因.

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
咖喱gā lí(loanword) curry
吗啡 (嗎啡)mǎ fēimorphine (loanword)
因为 (因為)yīn wèibecause; owing to; on account of
因此yīn cǐthus; consequently; as a result

See also: Japanese symbol for “caffeine”.

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.