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俗

sú

social customs

Phonosemantic compound. 亻 represents the meaning and 谷 represents the sound.

Components
亻 meaning component

亻  Meaning component

rén

  

person

亻 is a component form of 人.

谷 sound component

谷  Sound component

gǔ

  

valley, ravine

Evolution

俗 Bronze script Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Bronze script

Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
俗 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
俗 Clerical script Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)

Clerical script

Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)
俗 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

俗  

sú

social customs; vulgar, unrefined; custom; convention; popular; common; coarse; vulgar; secular

Most common words with 俗
Freq.
Word
Meaning

俗

custom

习俗

custom

粗俗

vulgar

世俗

profane

民俗

popular custom

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*s-[ɢ]ok

zjowk

sú

ways, customs; vulgar


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 14.2239% of movies

1838th most common character in movies

1354th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Unicode

U+4FD7

Shuowen

“俗，習也。从人，谷聲。”


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