"普天之下,莫非王土" meaning in Chinese

See 普天之下,莫非王土 in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proverb

IPA: /pʰu²¹⁴⁻²¹ tʰi̯ɛn⁵⁵ ʈ͡ʂʐ̩⁵⁵ ɕi̯ä⁵¹⁻⁵³ mu̯ɔ⁵¹ feɪ̯⁵⁵ wɑŋ³⁵ tʰu²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/ [Mandarin, Sinological-IPA], /pʰou̯³⁵ tʰiːn⁵⁵ t͡siː⁵⁵ haː²² mɔːk̚² fei̯⁵⁵ wɔːŋ²¹ tʰou̯³⁵/ [Cantonese, Sinological-IPA], /pʰu²¹⁴⁻²¹ tʰi̯ɛn⁵⁵ ʈ͡ʂʐ̩⁵⁵ ɕi̯ä⁵¹⁻⁵³ mu̯ɔ⁵¹ feɪ̯⁵⁵ wɑŋ³⁵ tʰu²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/, /pʰou̯³⁵ tʰiːn⁵⁵ t͡siː⁵⁵ haː²² mɔːk̚² fei̯⁵⁵ wɔːŋ²¹ tʰou̯³⁵/ Chinese transliterations: pǔtiānzhīxià [Mandarin, Pinyin], mòfēiwángtǔ [Mandarin, Pinyin], ㄆㄨˇ ㄊㄧㄢ ㄓ ㄒㄧㄚˋ [Mandarin, bopomofo], ㄇㄛˋ ㄈㄟ ㄨㄤˊ ㄊㄨˇ [Mandarin, bopomofo], pou² tin¹ zi¹ haa⁶, mok⁶ fei¹ wong⁴ tou² [Cantonese, Jyutping], pǔtiānzhīxià [Hanyu-Pinyin, Mandarin], mòfēiwángtǔ [Hanyu-Pinyin, Mandarin], pǔtianjhihsià [Mandarin, Tongyong-Pinyin], mòfeiwángtǔ [Mandarin, Tongyong-Pinyin], pʻu³-tʻien¹-chih¹-hsia⁴ [Mandarin, Wade-Giles], mo⁴-fei¹-wang²-tʻu³ [Mandarin, Wade-Giles], pǔ-tyān-jr̄-syà- [Mandarin, Yale], mwò-fēi-wáng-tǔ [Mandarin, Yale], puutianjyshiah [Gwoyeu-Romatsyh, Mandarin], mohfeiwangtuu [Gwoyeu-Romatsyh, Mandarin], путяньчжися [Mandarin, Palladius], мофэйванту [Mandarin, Palladius], putjanʹčžisja [Mandarin, Palladius], mofɛjvantu [Mandarin, Palladius], póu tīn jī hah, mohk fēi wòhng tóu [Cantonese, Yale], pou² tin¹ dzi¹ haa⁶, mok⁹ fei¹ wong⁴ tou² [Cantonese, Pinyin], pou² tin¹ ji¹ ha⁶, mog⁶ féi¹ wong⁴ tou² [Cantonese, Guangdong-Romanization]
Etymology: From the Classic of Poetry, poem 205 (《詩經·小雅·北山》) Etymology templates: {{lang|zh|(《詩經·小雅·北山》)}} (《詩經·小雅·北山》) Head templates: {{head|zh|proverb}} 普天之下,莫非王土
  1. All land under heaven is the territory of the sovereign Wikipedia link: Classic of Poetry
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Chinese dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.