







秀才不出门,而知天下事 is a Chinese idiom (chengyu) meaning “a knowledgeable person can be aware of or understand what is happening in the world without physically leaving their home, typically through reading, research, or other information sources”. Literally, “A scholar does not leave his home, yet knows all that is going on in the world”.

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Open the tool →秀才不出门,而知天下事 (xiù cai bù chū mén , ér zhī tiān xià shì) is a Chinese idiom (chengyu) meaning “a knowledgeable person can be aware of or understand what is happening in the world without physically leaving their home, typically through reading, research, or other information sources”.
秀才不出门,而知天下事 is pronounced xiù cai bù chū mén , ér zhī tiān xià shì in Mandarin Chinese.
Literally, 秀才不出门,而知天下事 means “a scholar does not leave his home, yet knows all that is going on in the world”. It is used to mean “a knowledgeable person can be aware of or understand what is happening in the world without physically leaving their home, typically through reading, research, or other information sources”.
秀才:指儒生。指有知识的人待在家里,也能知晓天下的事情