俗

Meaning

俗 centers on the ordinary, everyday world of common people: customs, manners, and mundane things. The sense of vulgarity comes from the idea of being unrefined or worldly rather than elevated.

• 風俗ふうぞく
  N1

  manners; customs

• 俗ぞく

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

• 民俗みんぞく
  N1

  folk customs; folkways; ethnic customs

• 世俗せぞく

  worldly things; common customs; ordinary life; popular taste

• 低俗ていぞく

  vulgar; lowbrow; coarse

• 公序良俗こうじょりょうぞく

  public order and morals; social standards; public policy

• 俗物ぞくぶつ

  worldly-minded person; materialist; uncultured person; philistine; vulgar person; snob

• 俗称ぞくしょう

  common name; popular name

• 俗説ぞくせつ

  common saying; popular version; folklore; tradition

• 俗語ぞくご
  N1

  colloquialism; colloquial language; slang

• 俗世ぞくせ

  this world; everyday world; earthly existence; mundane life

• 通俗つうぞく

  popular; common

• 習俗しゅうぞく

  manners and customs; folkways; usage

• 俗悪ぞくあく

  vulgar; coarse; lowbrow

• 還俗げんぞく

  return to secular life (of a monk); secularization; secularisation

• 俗っぽいぞくっぽい

  vulgar; in poor taste; cheap; low-brow

• 卑俗ひぞく

  vulgar; coarse; low

• 俗人ぞくじん

  person with low tastes; uncultured person; worldly person

• 通俗的つうぞくてき
  N1

  popular; common; commonplace

• 俗にぞくに

  commonly (called, said, etc.); popularly; colloquially; in common parlance

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