Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People

俗: vulgar, customs

Also: manners, worldliness, mundane things

JLPT N19 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met

亻 carries the meaning · 谷 gives the sound

9 strokes

One reading, and the words that use it

ゾクzoku · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 風俗ふうぞくmanners; customs
  • 俗語ぞくごcolloquialism; colloquial language; slang
  • 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
  • 俗ぞくlayman (esp. as opposed to a Buddhist monk)

Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Where it comes from

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“See the person standing tall, ready to interact with the world! When this radical appears on the left, it signals that the kanji describes a human quality, a social relationship, or an action that people perform.”
More in the 亻 person story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
亻

Also built on person (亻)

All 103
谷

Also built on valley (谷)

All 4

The 谷 family reads ヨウ (you); 俗 is read ゾク.

Also read ゾク

5 kanji share this on'yomi

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
俗 vulgar · 亻
vs容 contain · 宀
俗 has 亻 where 容 has 宀.
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · sú

Same form: 俗 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).

Simplified
俗 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
俗 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin sú most common reading

Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.

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