How to say "coping" in Japanese
Choosing the right word
- 笠木かさぎnounThe architectural sense: the coping that caps a wall, or the top rail of a fence or railing. If you are talking about construction or carpentry, this is the word you want.
- nounThe psychological sense: coping with stress, hardship or difficult emotions. A katakana loanword heard chiefly in psychology and stress-management contexts, and relatively uncommon in everyday conversation.
Use 笠木 for the physical coping of a wall or the top rail of a fence, and 「コーピング」 for the psychological sense of coping with stress; the two senses do not overlap.
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