咖 — coffee; café; type of person

Pinyin: gā · kā
Strokes: 8
HSK level: HSK 2
Handwriting: recognition only

This character has more than one reading — gā, kā — and the pronunciation depends on the word it appears in. The list below gives the syllabus reading for each word.

How to write 咖: 8 strokes

Each cell adds one stroke to the previous ones, with the new stroke in red. Stroke order is not decoration: it sets the proportions of the character and makes handwriting legible to a reader. The syllabus asks you to recognise this character rather than write it by hand.

咖 — 8 strokes, in writing order from left to right.

Build a printable practice sheet with 咖

Words with 咖 in the HSK syllabus: 1

Every word in the official 2026 syllabus that contains this character, with the level it is introduced at. Learning a character pays off through these: each one combines with the characters you already know.

咖啡kāfēicoffeeHSK 2

Glosses come from CC-CEDICT, used under CC BY-SA 4.0, and are the dictionary’s first sense rather than a translation chosen for context.