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俗
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Definitions
- 1. custom
- 2. convention
- 3. popular
- 4. common
- 5. coarse
- 6. vulgar
- 7. secular
Example Sentences
1 shown入乡随 俗 。
Sentence data courtesy of Tatoeba.org.
Words Containing 俗
offending public morals (idiom)
When you enter a country, enquire about the local customs (idiom); do as the natives do
bad habits
to explain in simple terms
social custom
undesirable customs
easy to understand
mundane world
cannibalism
vulgar
to defy the times and reject custom (idiom); in breach of current conventions
prevalent custom of the time
prevalent fashion (often used pejoratively)
vernacular name
accumulated habits become custom
tacky
can be enjoyed by scholars and lay-people alike (idiom)
folk customs
vulgar style (used of items to be censored)
common saying
Dramatized history of Republican China until 1927 by Cai Dongfan 蔡東藩|蔡东藩, and later chapters by Xu Qinfu 許廑父|许廑父
as the proverb says
to reform habits and customs (idiom)
When you enter a village, follow the local customs (idiom); do as the natives do
vulgar
the mundane world; the world of mortals
impressive
unable to break the custom (idiom)
popular fiction
Dramatized history of successive dynasties (from Han to Republican China) by Cai Dongfan 蔡東藩|蔡东藩
commonly referred to as
clichéd
profane
peddlers and common people
popular custom
everyday routine
to become accustomed to sth through long practice
common
layman
intolerably vulgar
common saying
custom
common sayings (idiom); widely circulated proverbs
universally shocking
popular science
nonstandard form of a Chinese character
folklore
vulgarization
one's habits change with long custom
vulgar
debasement; vulgarization
to return to normal life (leaving a monastic order)
laymen
customs change with time (idiom); other times, other manners
common people
nonstandard form of a Chinese character
to show poor taste
clichéd
lay (as opposed to clergy)
to cater to the public's taste
common people; ordinary folk
to withdraw from society and live like a hermit (idiom)
vulgar
according to custom
to put it in simple terms, ...
lit. when you enter a country, follow the local customs (idiom)
Extraordinary people in our ordinary world, short stories by novelist Feng Jicai 馮驥才|冯骥才[féng jì cái]
to be cynical
bad habit
common saying
established by popular usage (idiom); common usage agreement
to be corrupted by the ways of the world (idiom)
free from vulgarity
conventional patterns
etiquette
to conform to no conventional pattern