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无所不 …

There is nothing one does not… (无所不)

Structure 无所不 + monosyllabic verb (无所不知 / 无所不能 / 无所不在)

无所不 (wú suǒ bù) is a literary double negative built with the nominalising particle 所: literally "there is nothing one does not…", i.e. one does/knows/covers everything. It matches the English prefix "omni-": 无所不知 "omniscient", 无所不能 "omnipotent", 无所不在 "omnipresent", 无所不包 "all-embracing". It is always followed by a monosyllabic verb and forms fixed four-character expressions (chengyu) of written register; you don't coin new combinations freely.

Examples

  • lǎnqúnshūsuǒzhī

    He has read widely and there is hardly anything he doesn't know.

  • rénmencéngwéixuésuǒnéng

    People once believed that science could do anything.

  • jīn广guǎnggàosuǒzàiràngrénnánhuí

    Nowadays advertising is everywhere and hard to escape.

  • zhèjiāgōngdesuǒbāo

    This company's business covers absolutely everything.

Levels are indicative: they follow the standard Chinese Grammar Wiki (AllSet Learning) progression, not an official HSK 3.0 mapping. We never assign levels by eye.

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