所有
suǒ yǒu
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
All, every: it stands before a noun and takes in the whole of a group. It usually has 的 after it, and the noun is often followed by 都: 所有的学生都来了 'all the students have come'. 所有的人 is 'everyone', 所有的东西 'everything'.
Tất cả, toàn bộ, mọi: đứng trước danh từ để chỉ toàn thể một nhóm. Thường có 的 theo sau, và sau danh từ hay có thêm 都: 所有的学生都来了 (tất cả học sinh đều đã đến). 所有的人 là “tất cả mọi người”, 所有的东西 là “mọi thứ”.
AdjectiveRegister: neutral
Examples
Editorial example (illustrative, not a corpus attestation) — awaiting a native-speaker check
Sources & notes
Hán-Việt bridge batch 063 (2026-11-14). Headword, Traditional form and pinyin checked against CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0) source ↗ · Hán-Việt reading: Unihan kVietnamese source ↗ ; en.wiktionary Vietnamese entries via kaikki.org extract, snapshot 2026-07-31 (CC BY-SA 4.0): Hán-Việt reading 所 = sở · Vietnamese false friend: Idiomer entry “sở hữu” (so-huu). Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.
Equivalents & related
Common questions
What does “所有” mean?
All, every: it stands before a noun and takes in the whole of a group. It usually has 的 after it, and the noun is often followed by 都: 所有的学生都来了 'all the students have come'. 所有的人 is 'everyone', 所有的东西 'everything'. Literally: what there is
Is “所有” formal or informal?
所有 is generally neutral.