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应付

yìng fu

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 應付

应付 (yìng fu) means "to deal with; to cope". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 应付 means

1. to deal with; to cope

The characters in 应付

• 应yīngto agree (to do sth); should; ought to
• 付fùto pay; to hand over to; classifier for pairs or sets of things

Example sentences

• 她无法应付压力。
  Tā wúfǎ yìngfu yālì.
  She is unable to cope with stress.
• 他擅长应付小孩子。
  Tā shàncháng yìngfu xiǎoháizi.
  He is good at dealing with children.
• 我忙于应付期末考试。
  I was busy studying for the term exam.
• 我今晚没心力应付这件事。
  I don't have the energy for this tonight.
• 我们已经准备好应付千年虫。
  We're thoroughly prepared for the Y2K bug.
• 问题是我们如何应付目前的困难。
  Wèntí shì wǒmen rúhé yìngfu mùqián de kùnnan.
  The problem is how we cope with the present difficulties.

Words starting with 应付

• 应付自如yìng fu zì rúto handle matters with ease (idiom); to hold one's own
• 应付过去yìng fu guò quto muddle through
• 应付账款yīng fù zhàng kuǎnaccounts payable
• 应付裕如yìng fu yù rúhandling any occasion smoothly (idiom); equal to any situation

Words containing 应付

• 难以应付nán yǐ yìng fùhard to deal with; hard to handle
• 穷于应付qióng yú yìng fùto struggle to cope (with a situation); to be at one's wits' end

Where 应付 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Character, Brothers & Spare Time (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read yìng fu correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.