全世界
quán shì jiè · HSK 5
worldwide
🌍 全 (whole) + 世界 (world) = the whole world
全 means complete or entire; 世界 is the standard word for world (世 = era/generation, 界 = boundary/realm). Together: the entire world, i.e. worldwide.
全 — enter 入 on top + jade 玉
Originally written as 入 (enter) over 玉 (jade), depicting a complete, unflawed piece of jade kept in storage. From this image of a perfect jade came the meanings 'whole,' 'complete,' and 'entire.' The top component is sometimes written as 人.
界 — field 田 + scope 介
界 combines 田 (field) as the semantic component with 介 (jiè) as the phonetic. The original sense referred to boundaries between fields, then broadened to any border, limit, or realm — yielding modern meanings like 'world' (世界) and 'boundary' (边界).