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vulgar

Stroke count: 9

Readings

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Jōyō Grade 8KANJIDIC

Meanings

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
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
manners
worldliness
mundane things

layman (esp. as opposed to a Buddhist monk)
laity
man of the world
the world
local manners

Homonyms

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Same reading (ぞく)

Radicals and components

Radical人person 亻variant

Components

How it's built

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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

古俗こぞく

州俗しゅうぞく

世俗せぞく

俗諺ぞくげん

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

俗謡ぞくよう

俗吏ぞくり

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

鄙俗ひぞく

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