放之四海而皆准

1. • applicable anywhere (idiom)

Character by character

• 放(fàng)put
• 之(zhī)(possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的 de)
• 四(sì)four
• 海(hǎi)surname Hai
• 而(ér)and
• 皆(jiē)all
• 准(zhǔn)allow