磨豆机

磨豆機

mòdòujī

noun

Measure Word

一台磨豆机 tái

Meanings

1 coffee grinder
2 bean grinder

Characters

millstone / to grind

Examples

我买了一台手摇磨豆机。

Wǒ mǎi le yì tái shǒuyáo mòdòujī.

I bought a hand-crank coffee grinder.

电动磨豆机几秒钟就磨好了。

Diàndòng mòdòujī jǐ miǎozhōng jiù mó hǎo le.

An electric grinder finishes the job in a few seconds.

Tips

usage

磨豆机 almost always means a coffee bean grinder. For a soybean-milk machine (which also grinds beans), the term is 豆浆机. Watch the verb 磨 — here it's mó (4th-tone reading mò is for 'millstone').

Stroke Order

磨 mó

豆 dòu

机 jī