凡事

Chinese

		ordinary; every; all ordinary; every; all; whatever; worldly	matter; thing; item matter; thing; item; work; affair
simp. and trad. (凡事)		凡	事

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): fánshì

  (Zhuyin): ㄈㄢˊ ㄕˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): faan⁴ si⁶
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): fàm-sṳ
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): hoân-sū / hoân-sīr

  (Teochew, Peng'im): huam⁶ se⁷ / huang⁶ se⁷

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)
    • Hanyu Pinyin: fánshì
    • Zhuyin: ㄈㄢˊ ㄕˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: fánshìh
    • Wade–Giles: fan²-shih⁴
    • Yale: fán-shr̀
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: farnshyh
    • Palladius: фаньши (fanʹši)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fän³⁵ ʂʐ̩⁵¹/
    • Homophones:

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      edit edit 凡事 凡是 繁峙

• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: faan⁴ si⁶
    • Yale: fàahn sih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: faan⁴ si⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: fan⁴ xi⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /faːn²¹ siː²²/
    • Homophones:

      edit edit 凡事 凡是 繁峙

• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: fàm-sṳ
    • Hakka Romanization System: famˇ sii
    • Hagfa Pinyim: fam² si⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /fam¹¹ sɨ⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hoân-sū
    • Tâi-lô: huân-sū
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hoansu
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /huan²³⁻³³ su³³/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /huan²⁴⁻²² su²²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /huan²⁴⁻¹¹ su³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /huan¹³⁻²² su²²/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hoân-sīr
    • Tâi-lô: huân-sīr
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /huan²⁴⁻²² sɯ⁴¹/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: huam⁶ se⁷ / huang⁶ se⁷
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: huăm sṳ̄ / huăng sṳ̄
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /huam³⁵⁻¹¹ sɯ¹¹/, /huaŋ³⁵⁻¹¹ sɯ¹¹/

Adverb

凡事

1. (literary) no matter what it is; in all things

   凡事要先搞清楚性質才不至於出錯。 [MSC, trad.]
   凡事要先搞清楚性质才不至于出错。 [MSC, simp.]

   Fánshì yào xiān gǎo qīngchǔ xìngzhì cái bùzhìyú chūcuò. [Pinyin]

   An understanding of the nature of things is needed to avoid making mistakes.