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

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

omnipotent; all-powerful; almighty

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (無所不能):

→ Korean: 무소불능(無所不能) (musobulleung)