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Open the tool →普天之下,莫非王土 (pǔ tiān zhī xià , mò fēi wáng tǔ) is a Chinese idiom (chengyu) meaning “All the land under heaven belongs to the sovereign”.
普天之下,莫非王土 is pronounced pǔ tiān zhī xià , mò fēi wáng tǔ in Mandarin Chinese.
Literally, 普天之下,莫非王土 means “Under the whole heaven, nothing is not the sovereign's land”. It is used to mean “All the land under heaven belongs to the sovereign”.
普:普遍,全。苍天之下都是天子的辖地。指大一统思想