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俗

vulgar
Stroke count: 9

Readings

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JōyōGrade 8KANJIDIC

Meanings

  1. vulgarRtK
    新聞のさまざまな虚偽や卑俗さにも関わらず。Reject all its lies and vulgarity.tatoeba
    彼は俗事をかえりみず研究に没頭した。He applied himself to his study, without thought for his normal life.tatoeba
  2. customs
    世界には皮膚の色や風俗習慣を異にするさまざまな人々が住んでいる。There live in this world people of all sorts of colors and manners and customs.tatoeba
  3. manners
  4. worldliness
  5. mundane things
  1. layman (esp. as opposed to a Buddhist monk)
  2. laity
  3. man of the world
  4. the world
  5. local manners

Radicals and components

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Components
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Mnemonic (RtK)

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person (人) · valley · eight (八) · umbrella · mouth (口)

From "Remembering the Kanji" by James Heisig · Frame 1042

Compound words

俗語ぞくご
colloquialism; colloquial language; slang
風俗ふうぞく
manners; customs; public morals; sex service; sex industry
民俗みんぞく
folk customs; folkways; ethnic customs
通俗的つうぞくてき
popular; common; commonplace
公序良俗こうじょりょうぞく
public order and morals; social standards; public policy
夷俗いぞく
barbaric custom
雅俗がぞく
refined and vulgar
還俗げんぞく
return to secular life (of a monk)
旧俗きゅうぞく
old customs
古俗こぞく
old custom
州俗しゅうぞく
local customs
世俗せぞく
worldly things
俗諺ぞくげん
proverb
俗姓ぞくしょう
secular surname (of a priest)
俗諦ぞくたい
conventional truth
俗輩ぞくはい
worldlings
俗謡ぞくよう
popular song
俗吏ぞくり
petty official
俗累ぞくるい
worldly troubles
俗箏ぞくそう
modern koto (in contrast to the gagaku koto or gakuso)
俗筝ぞくそう
modern koto (in contrast to the gagaku koto or gakuso)
超俗ちょうぞく
aloofness, transcending the mundane
俚俗りぞく
vulgarity
鄙俗ひぞく
vulgar

Additional Examples

新聞のさまざまな虚偽や卑俗さにも関わらず。
Reject all its lies and vulgarity.tatoeba

Stroke Order

9 strokes

Practice Writing

Practice Writing 俗

Draw with a guide, then from memory — checked at every step