俗
custom; convention; popular; common; coarse; vulgar; secular
9 strokes
Dict coverage rank #1,040 U+4FD7
How 俗 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
亻 (semantic, “person”) + 谷 (phonetic, gǔ)
How to remember it
custom · Heisig RSH #2095
人 person + 谷 valley
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 谷
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 谷 (gǔ) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 谷 sound component | gǔ | valley, gorge, ravine |
| 欲 | yù | desire, want, longing, intent |
| 浴 | yù | to bathe, to shower, to wash |
| 裕 | yù | rich, plentiful, abundant |
| 鹆 | yù | mynah; Acridotheres tristis |
Words containing 俗
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 通俗科学 | tōng sú kē xué | popular science |
| 通俗小说 | tōng sú xiǎo shuō | popular fiction; light literature |
| 民国通俗演义 | Mín guó tōng sú yǎn yì | Dramatized history of Republican China until 1927 by Cai Dongfan 蔡東藩|蔡东藩, and later chapte… |
| 约定俗成 | yuē dìng sú chéng | established by popular usage (idiom); common usage agreement; customary convention |
| 民俗学 | mín sú xué | folklore |
| 俗体字 | sú tǐ zì | nonstandard form of a Chinese character |
| 俗世奇人 | sú shì qí rén | Extraordinary people in our ordinary world, short stories by novelist Feng Jicai 馮驥才|冯骥才[F… |
| 低俗之风 | dī sú zhī fēng | vulgar style (used of items to be censored) |
| 食人俗 | shí rén sú | cannibalism |
| 不落俗套 | bù luò sú tào | to conform to no conventional pattern; unconventional; offbeat |
| 俗话说 | sú huà shuō | as the proverb says; as they say... |
| 历朝通俗演义 | lì cháo tōng sú yǎn yì | Dramatized history of successive dynasties (from Han to Republican China) by Cai Dongfan 蔡… |
| 不俗 | bù sú | impressive; out of the ordinary |
| 俗人 | sú rén | common people; laity (i.e. not priests) |
| 俗家 | sú jiā | layman; layperson; original home of a monk |
| 俗气 | sú qì | tacky; inelegant; in poor taste; vulgar; banal |
| 低俗化 | dī sú huà | vulgarization |
| 俗随时变 | sú suí shí biàn | customs change with time (idiom); other times, other manners; O Tempora, O Mores! |
| 俗事 | sú shì | everyday routine; ordinary affairs |
| 风俗 | fēng sú | social custom; CL:個|个[ge4] |