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俗

俗

俗 U+4FD7, 俗
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4FD7
← 俖
[U+4FD6] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 俘 →
[U+4FD8]

Translingual

Han character

俗 (radical 9 人+7, 9 strokes, cangjie input 人金人口 (OCOR), four-corner 28268, composition ⿰亻谷)

  1. social customs
  2. vulgar, unrefined

References

  • KangXi: page 105, character 9
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 695
  • Dae Jaweon: page 221, character 19
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 163, character 10
  • Unihan data for U+4FD7

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 俗

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 俗
Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script
Bronze inscriptions

b12355

b12356

b12357

b12358

b12359

b12360
Large seal script

L37601

L37602

L37603

L37604

L25644

L25645

L25646

L25647
Small seal script

s05809
References:

Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation),
which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including:

  • Shuowen Jiezi (small seal),
  • Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions),
  • Liushutong (large seal) and
  • Xu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).
Characters in the same phonetic series (谷) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
螸 *lo
裕 *loɡs
容 *loŋ
溶 *loŋ, *loŋʔ
鎔 *loŋ
蓉 *loŋ
傛 *loŋ, *loŋʔ
褣 *loŋ
搈 *loŋ
瑢 *loŋ
嵱 *loŋ
熔 *loŋ
榕 *loŋ
塎 *loŋʔ
谷 *ɦkroːɡ, *kloːɡ, *ɡ·loːɡ
唂 *kloːɡ
焀 *ɡloːɡ
俗 *ljoɡ
欲 *loɡ
浴 *loɡ
鵒 *loɡ
峪 *ɦkloːɡ
鋊 *loɡ
輍 *loɡ
慾 *loɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ljoɡ) : semantic 亻 ‎(“person”) + phonetic 谷 ‎(OC *ɦkroːɡ, *kloːɡ, *ɡ·loːɡ) – customs of people.

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 俗
Mandarin Beijing /su³⁵/
Harbin /ɕy²⁴/
/su²⁴/
Tianjin /ɕy⁴⁵/
/su⁴⁵/
Jinan /ɕy⁴²/
Qingdao /sy⁴²/
Zhengzhou /sy⁴²/
Xi'an /ɕy²⁴/
Xining /ɕy²⁴/
Yinchuan /ɕy¹³/
Lanzhou /su⁵³/
Ürümqi /su²¹³/
Wuhan /səu²¹³/
Chengdu /ɕyo³¹/
/ɕy³¹/
Guiyang /ɕiu²¹/
Kunming /su³¹/
Nanjing /suʔ⁵/
Hefei /suəʔ⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /ɕyəʔ⁵⁴/
Pingyao /ɕyʌʔ⁵³/
Hohhot /ɕyəʔ⁴³/
Wu Shanghai /zoʔ¹/
Suzhou /zoʔ³/
Hangzhou /d͡zoʔ²/
Wenzhou /jo²¹³/
Hui Shexian /su²²/
Tunxi /siu⁵/
Xiang Changsha /səu²⁴/
Xiangtan /səɯ²⁴/
Gan Nanchang /ɕiuʔ⁵/
Hakka Meixian /siuk̚⁵/
Taoyuan /siuk̚⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /t͡sok̚²/
Nanning /suk̚²²/
Hong Kong /t͡suk̚²/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /siɔk̚⁵/
/sioʔ⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /syʔ⁵/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /sy²⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /sok̚⁵/
Haikou (Min Nan) /tok̚³/
Rime
Character 俗
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 邪 (17)
Final (韻) 燭 (8)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 似足切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /zɨok̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ziok̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ziok̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /zuawk̚/
Li
Rong		 /ziok̚/
Wang
Li		 /zĭwok̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /zi̯wok̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 sú
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 俗
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 sú
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ zjowk ›
Old
Chinese		 /*s-[ɢ]ok/
English ways, customs; vulgar

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 俗
Reading # 1/1
No. 4302
Phonetic
component		 谷
Rime
group		 屋
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 續
Old
Chinese		 /*ljoɡ/

Adjective

俗

  1. vulgar; unrefined; common; popular; vernacular
  2. (Min Nan) cheap; inexpensive

Synonyms

  • (cheap):
Dialectal synonyms of 便宜 (“cheap”)
Variety Location Words
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 便宜、低廉
Mandarin Beijing 便宜、賤
Taiwan 便宜
Jinan 便宜、賤
Xi'an 便宜、賤
Wuhan 便宜、相因
Chengdu 相因、便宜
Yangzhou 便宜、划廉
Hefei 巧、便宜
Cantonese Guangzhou 平
Hong Kong 平
Taishan 平
Yangjiang 平、平宜
Gan Nanchang 便宜
Hakka Meixian 便宜、平
Miaoli (N. Sixian) 便宜
Liudui (S. Sixian) 便宜
Hsinchu (Hailu) 便宜
Dongshi (Dabu) 便宜
Zhuolan (Raoping) 便宜
Yunlin (Zhao'an) 便宜
Jin Taiyuan 便宜、賤
Min Bei Jian'ou 便宜
Min Dong Fuzhou 便宜
Min Nan Quanzhou 俗、便宜
Xiamen 俗、便宜
Zhangzhou 俗、便宜
Taipei 俗、便宜
Kaohsiung 俗、便宜
Malaysia 便宜
Chaozhou 便
Wu Shanghai 𠼢、便宜
Suzhou 便宜、𠼢
Wenzhou 倯、便宜
Xiang Changsha 便宜
Shuangfeng 便宜、賤

Noun

俗

  1. custom; practice; habit
  2. (Buddhism) those of the secular world; non-monks

Compounds

  • 俗話兒／俗话儿
  • 俗語／俗语 (súyǔ)
  • 俗語有話／俗语有话
  • 俗過賣貓／俗过卖猫
  • 俗骨
  • 俗體字／俗体字
  • 通俗 (tōngsú)

Japanese

Kanji

俗

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

Compounds

  • 民俗
  • 俗悪
  • 俗縁
  • 俗化
  • 俗歌
  • 俗画
  • 俗解
  • 俗界
  • 俗学
  • 俗楽
  • 俗間
  • 俗眼
  • 俗気
  • 俗議
  • 俗曲
  • 俗形
  • 俗見
  • 俗言
  • 俗諺
  • 俗語
  • 俗才
  • 俗諦
  • 俗伝
  • 俗念
  • 俗輩
  • 俗筆
  • 俗物
  • 俗文
  • 俗務
  • 俗名
  • 俗用
  • 俗謡
  • 俗吏
  • 俗流
  • 俗累
  • 俗論
  • 俗話
  • 夷俗
  • 雅俗
  • 旧俗
  • 郷俗
  • 還俗

Adjectival noun

俗 ‎(-na inflection, hiragana ぞく, romaji zoku)

  1. worldly
  2. vulgar
  3. common, lay
    俗 (ぞく)に言 (い)う
    zoku ni iu
    what is commonly referred to as
    俗 (ぞく)に言 (い)えば
    zoku ni ieba
    to use a common phrase

Inflection

Noun

俗 ‎(hiragana ぞく, romaji zoku)

  1. worldliness
  2. vulgarity
  3. the laity, mundane things, common man
  4. customs

Derived terms

Korean

Hanja

俗 • ‎(sok) (hangeul 속, revised sok, McCune-Reischauer sok, Yale sok)

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Vietnamese

Han character

俗 (tục)

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