wàn​shì​tōng

know-it-all

  • created reference approved 万事通/萬事通 → 百事通 (same_as) — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    万事通 / 萬事通 wàn​shì​tōng

    百事通 bǎi​shì​tōng

    same_as

    Changed: source (simp), source (trad), source pinyin, target (simp), target (trad), target pinyin, type

    created reference

  • created sense approved 万事通/萬事通 · wàn​shì​tōng · know-it-all — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    万事通 / 萬事通

    wàn​shì​tōng

    know-it-all

    A person who is knowledgeable about everything or pretends to be; also used to mean a jack-of-all-trades. This term sometimes carries a sarcastic or ironic tone.

    万事 (literal) → 万事/萬事 · wàn​shì · everything 通 (bound) → 通 · tōng · expert

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense