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Kanji Detail for 俗 - "custom, worldly, low"

俗

  • Meaning

    俗 means "custom, worldly, low."

    1. Low - Vulgar; of poor quality.

    2. Custom - Habit; practice.

    3. World - Society; the public.

    4. Common people - Ordinary people; the general public.

    5. Ordinary - Common; commonplace.

  • Words using 俗

    • 風俗 ふうぞく Listen manners; customs; public morals
    • 俗語 ぞくご Listen colloquialism; colloquial language; slang
    • 通俗的 つうぞくてき Listen popular; common; commonplace
    • 民俗 みんぞく Listen folk customs; folkways; ethnic customs
    • 公序良俗 こうじょりょうぞく Listen public order and morals; social standards; public policy

  • Four-character idioms with 俗

    • 公序良俗 こうじょりょうぞく Listen public order and morals; social standards; public policy
    • 俗談平話 ぞくだんへいわ Listen conversation on worldly affairs; chat about everyday life (business)
    • 良風美俗 りょうふうびぞく Listen good customs
    • 醇風美俗 じゅんぷうびぞく Listen good morals and manners; genial manners and laudable customs; pristine way of life
    • 雅俗折衷 がぞくせっちゅう Listen blending of the classical and colloquial styles
    • 雅俗混交 がぞくこんこう Listen mixture of both culture and vulgarism; mixture of both literary and colloquial (language)

  • Tattoo check: 俗

    • Verified meaning: custom, worldly, low
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    vulgar; customs; manners; worldliness; mundane things

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    social customs; vulgar, unrefined

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    custom; convention; popular; common; coarse; vulgar; secular

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    social customs; vulgar, unrefined

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    Customs. What superiors transform is called 風; what inferiors practice is called 俗. Such as 移風易俗 (change customs). | Unrefined is called 俗. What worldly people desire but scholars don't approve of. Such as 俗學 (vulgar learning), 俗調 (vulgar tune).

  • Onyomi

    tip

    zoku(ゾク) ゾク

  • Kunyomi

    tip
    none

  • Strokes

    tip

    9 strokes

  • Radical

    tip

    人 亻 (hito・nimben・hitogashira・hitoyane)

  • Related Keywords

    low custom worldly common people vulgar common manners popular secular lay crude everyday folk mundane ordinary plebeian colloquial conventional profane

Sentences including 俗

  • Don't use slang if you can help it.

  • My son is not a snob.

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