俗

Information about character(s)

Radical: 人
Radical Strokes: 2
Additional Strokes: 7
Total Strokes: 9

Pronunciation

Pinyin: sú
Cantonese: zuk6
JapaneseKun: NARAWASHI
JapaneseOn: ZOKU
Korean: SOK
Vietnamese: tục

Dictionary definitions

Unicode: social customs; vulgar, unrefined

CE-Dict: custom/convention/popular/common/coarse/vulgar/secular

Soothill: common, ordinary, usual, vulgar.

English-Chinse-English Dictionary of Buddhist terms (Stardict): (1) Habit, custom, practice, usage, convention. (2) Worldly, secular, profane, colloquial. Synonymous with 世間 which is the opposite of 出世間 (vyavaha^ra). (3) A secular person, as opposed to someone belonging to a religious order. (4) Mean, base, mundane.

21 Century bidirectional dictionary: 1.custom; convention
2.popular; common
3.secular
4.vulgar

朗道漢英字典 - Lang Dao: common; convention; custom; secular; vulgar

懶蟲簡明漢英詞典: common; convention; custom; secular; vulgar

說文解字 - Shuowen: 《人部》俗習也。从人谷聲。

康熙字典文字版 【子集中】【人字部】俗
〔古文〕圱【唐韻】似足切【集韻】【韻會】【正韻】松玉切，𠀤音續。習也。上所化曰風，下所習曰俗。【釋名】俗，欲也，俗人所欲也。【禮·曲禮】禮從宜，使從俗。又【周禮·天官】八則治都鄙，六曰禮俗，以馭其民。　又不雅曰俗。【黃庭堅曰】士俗不可醫。或問不俗之狀，庭堅曰：難言也。視其平居，無以異於人，臨大節而不可奪，此不俗人也。　【說文】从人，谷聲。【徐曰】俗之言續也。轉相習也。
考證：〔相如上林賦徼𠊬受屈。〕　謹照原文上林賦改子虚賦。

Buddhism words and phrases worldly, secular

CF-Dict: coutume/ populaire/vulgaire

Han-De-Dict: gewöhnlich, abgeschmackt (u.E.)/Sitte, Gebräuche (u.E.)