无所不知

無所不知

wúsuǒ-bùzhī

idiom

Meanings

HSK 3

我爷爷好像无所不知。

Wǒ yéye hǎoxiàng wúsuǒ-bùzhī.

My grandpa seems to know everything.

HSK 5

没有人能无所不知，遇到不懂的问题就要虚心请教。

Méiyǒu rén néng wúsuǒ-bùzhī, yùdào bù dǒng de wèntí jiù yào xūxīn qǐngjiào.

Nobody knows everything, so when you hit a question you can't answer, ask humbly.

grammar

One of a family built on 无 'there is nothing' + 所 'that which' + 不 'not' + verb: 无所不能 'all-powerful', 无所不在 'everywhere', 无所不为 'to stop at nothing'.

history

Already in the Daoist book 列子: the sage 无所不知，无所不通, 'knows everything and sees through everything'.

无 wú

所 suǒ

不 bù

知 zhī