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

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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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:
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    凡是
    繁峙
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: fàm-sṳ
  - Hakka Romanization System: fam^ˇ 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

(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.