無所不在

Chinese

		not have	actually; place; (nominalization prefix)	not; no	(located) at; in; exist (located) at; in; exist; (before verbs) immediately involved in; right in the middle of doing
trad. (無所不在)		無	所	不	在
simp. (无所不在)		无	所	不	在

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): wúsuǒbùzài

  (Zhuyin): ㄨˊ ㄙㄨㄛˇ ㄅㄨˋ ㄗㄞˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): mou⁴ so² bat¹ zoi⁶
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): bû-só͘-put-chāi / bô-só͘-put-chāi

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: wúsuǒbùzài [Phonetic: wúsuǒbúzài]
    • Zhuyin: ㄨˊ ㄙㄨㄛˇ ㄅㄨˋ ㄗㄞˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: wúsuǒbùzài
    • Wade–Giles: wu²-so³-pu⁴-tsai⁴
    • Yale: wú-swǒ-bù-dzài
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: wusuoobutzay
    • Palladius: усобуцзай (usobuczaj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /u³⁵ su̯ɔ²¹⁴⁻²¹ pu⁵¹⁻³⁵ t͡saɪ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: mou⁴ so² bat¹ zoi⁶
    • Yale: mòuh só bāt joih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: mou⁴ so² bat⁷ dzoi⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: mou⁴ so² bed¹ zoi⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mou̯²¹ sɔː³⁵ pɐt̚⁵ t͡sɔːi̯²²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bû-só͘-put-chāi
    • Tâi-lô: bû-sóo-put-tsāi
    • Phofsit Daibuun: busofputzai
    • IPA (Xiamen): /bu²⁴⁻²² sɔ⁵³⁻⁴⁴ put̚³²⁻⁴ t͡sai²²/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /bu²³⁻³³ sɔ⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ put̚³²⁻⁴ t͡sai³³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /bu²⁴⁻¹¹ sɔ⁵³⁻⁴⁴ put̚³²⁻⁴ t͡sai³³/
  • (Hokkien: variant in Taiwan)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bô-só͘-put-chāi
    • Tâi-lô: bô-sóo-put-tsāi
    • Phofsit Daibuun: boisofputzai
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /bɤ²³⁻³³ sɔ⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ put̚³²⁻⁴ t͡sai³³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /bo²⁴⁻¹¹ sɔ⁵³⁻⁴⁴ put̚³²⁻⁴ t͡sai³³/

Idiom

無所不在

1. ubiquitous; omnipresent; to be everywhere

Synonyms

• 無處不在／无处不在 (wúchùbùzài)

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (無所不在):

• → Korean: 무소부재(無所不在) (musobujae)