coffee cup
Refers to a cup for drinking coffee, often a handleless cup similar in shape to a Japanese tea bowl (茶碗). Contrasts with コーヒーカップ, which typically implies a Western-style cup with a handle.
See also: コーヒーカップ
This café serves carefully brewed coffee in a handleless coffee cup.
コーヒーカップ is a Western-style coffee cup with a handle, while コーヒー茶碗 is a handleless cup resembling a Japanese tea bowl.
Standard kanji-katakana spelling for a coffee cup, especially in contexts where a Japanese-style tea bowl shape is implied.
Ateji spelling using 珈琲 for コーヒー; rarely used in modern writing.
Compound of コーヒー (coffee) and 茶碗 (tea bowl). The spelling 珈琲 is ateji for コーヒー.