Chinese symbol for “cope”
应付
yìng fu
Traditional: 應付
to deal with; to cope
The closest CC-CEDICT match for cope is 应付 (yìng fu), defined as: to deal with; to cope.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “cope”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 应付.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 应该 (應該) | yīng gāi | ought to; should; must |
| 应用 (應用) | yìng yòng | to put to use; to apply; practical; applied (science, linguistics etc) |
| 反应 (反應) | fǎn yìng | to react; to respond |
| 应当 (應當) | yīng dāng | should; ought to |
| 适应 (適應) | shì yìng | to adapt; to fit |
| 相应 (相應) | xiāng yìng | to correspond; answering (one another) |
| 支付 | zhī fù | to pay (money) |
| 对付 (對付) | duì fu | to handle; to deal with; to tackle; to get by with; to make do |
See also: Japanese symbol for “cope”.
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.