無所不能

Chinese

		not have	actually; place; (nominalization prefix)	cannot; must not; should not cannot; must not; should not; to be unable to; to fail to
trad. (無所不能)		無	所	不能
simp. (无所不能)		无	所	不能
Literally: “[one] does not have anything that [one] cannot do”.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): wúsuǒbùnéng

  (Zhuyin): ㄨˊ ㄙㄨㄛˇ ㄅㄨˋ ㄋㄥˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): mou⁴ so² bat¹ nang⁴
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): bû-só͘-put-lêng

  (Teochew, Peng'im): bho⁵ so² bug⁴ lêng⁵

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: wúsuǒbùnéng
    • Zhuyin: ㄨˊ ㄙㄨㄛˇ ㄅㄨˋ ㄋㄥˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: wúsuǒbùnéng
    • Wade–Giles: wu²-so³-pu⁴-nêng²
    • Yale: wú-swǒ-bù-néng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: wusuoobuneng
    • Palladius: усобунэн (usobunɛn)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /u³⁵ su̯ɔ²¹⁴⁻²¹ pu⁵¹ nɤŋ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: mou⁴ so² bat¹ nang⁴
    • Yale: mòuh só bāt nàhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: mou⁴ so² bat⁷ nang⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: mou⁴ so² bed¹ neng⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mou̯²¹ sɔː³⁵ pɐt̚⁵ nɐŋ²¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bû-só͘-put-lêng
    • Tâi-lô: bû-sóo-put-lîng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: busofputleeng
    • IPA (Taipei): /bu²⁴⁻¹¹ sɔ⁵³⁻⁴⁴ put̚³²⁻⁴ liɪŋ²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /bu²³⁻³³ sɔ⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ put̚³²⁻⁴ liɪŋ²³/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: bho⁵ so² bug⁴ lêng⁵
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: bô só puk lêng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /bo⁵⁵⁻¹¹ so⁵²⁻³⁵ puk̚²⁻⁴ leŋ⁵⁵/

Idiom

無所不能

1. omnipotent; all-powerful; almighty

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (無所不能):

• → Korean: 무소불능(無所不能) (musobulleung)