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Learning Chinese is easier with our free resources! This series explains idioms and proverbs, valuable for various situations. Today’s idiom is 「應付自如」, with more below.

Learn about the idiom 「應付自如」: its definition and how it’s used are detailed here.

Cope: deal with, handle. Free: Do things according to your own wishes. He handles things calmly and has many ways of doing things.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

yīng fù zì rú

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

ying3 fu6 ji6 yu4

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