Ten drinks, one printable page: 饮料, 水, 茶, 咖啡, 牛奶, 奶茶, 果汁, 可乐, 啤酒 and 矿泉水. Each appears in 田字格 (tián zì gé) tracing grids with pinyin above, free to print or save as a PDF with no signup. The word table with pinyin and meanings follows below.
The 口 on the left is a sound, not a mouth
咖啡, 可乐 and 啤酒 all came into Chinese from other languages, and you can see it in the characters. 咖, 啡 and 啤 each carry 口, which Chinese often adds to mark a character that is being used purely for its sound rather than its meaning. So 咖啡 is not coffee-flavored mouth; it is just kāfēi written down. 可乐 skipped the radical but got a happy accident of meaning instead, since the characters read as something like can be enjoyable.
Radicals that actually tell you something
The rest of the set is more literal. 茶 wears 艹, the grass radical, because tea is a leaf. 汁 in 果汁 and 酒 in 啤酒 both take 氵, the three-drop water radical, and 泉 in 矿泉水 is a spring with 水 sitting right at the bottom. 奶 takes 女 on the left, the same component you see in words about mothers and nursing — which is why 奶茶 reads as milk plus tea.
One more thing to practice out loud while you trace: drinks need measure words. Use 一杯 for a cup or glass of 水, 茶, 咖啡 or 牛奶, 一瓶 for a bottle of 啤酒 or 矿泉水, and 一罐 for a can. If you want more grids, print blank 田字格 paper, or check any measure word you are unsure about with the Chinese measure word finder.
Words on this worksheet: 饮料 (yǐnliào) — Drinks; 水 (shuǐ) — water; 茶 (chá) — tea; 咖啡 (kāfēi) — Coffee; 牛奶 (niúnǎi) — milk; 奶茶 (nǎi chá) — milk tea; 果汁 (guǒzhī) — fruit juice; 可乐 (kě lè) — coke, cola; 啤酒 (píjiǔ) — Beer; 矿泉水 (kuàngquáns huǐ) — Mineral water.
Hear these words in beginner Mandarin songs.
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What level is this worksheet?
It suits learners from about HSK 3. That is an editorial estimate for the Drinks & Beverages topic, not an official HSK word list, so a few of its 10 words may be harder. Each word prints with tone-marked pinyin and an English meaning to help.
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