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众所周知

zhòng suǒ zhōu zhī

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 6 4-character word Traditional 眾所周知

众所周知 (zhòng suǒ zhōu zhī) means "as everyone knows (idiom)". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 众所周知 means

1. idiomas everyone knows

Other readings

众所周知 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• zhòng suǒ zhōu zhīvariant of {众所周知|zhòng suǒ zhōu zhī}

The characters in 众所周知

• 众zhòng(bound form) crowd; multitude; (bound form) many; numerous
• 所suǒactually; place; classifier for houses, small buildings, institutions etc
• 周zhōuto make a circuit; to circle; circle
• 知zhīto know; to be aware

Example sentences

• 他的名字众所周知。
  Everybody knows his name.
• 他的名字是众所周知的。
  His name is known to all.
• 众所周知，空气是多种气体的混合体。
  Zhòngsuǒzhōuzhī, kōngqì shì duōzhǒng qìtǐ de hùnhétǐ.
  As everyone knows, air is a mixture of gases.
• 众所周知，直到上个世纪中叶日本是一个封建国家。
  Zhòngsuǒzhōuzhī, zhídào shàngge shìjì zhōngyè Rìběn shì yī gè fēngjiàn guójiā.
  It is well known that up to the middle of the last century Japan was a feudal state.

Where 众所周知 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · chóng–zhōu (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
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