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俗

JLPT N1 9 strokes Frequency: #1610

Meanings

Vulgar, Customs, Manners, Worldliness, Mundane Things

Radicals

亻

Decomposition

⿰亻谷

Etymology

Pictophonetic: person

Writing Practice

Stroke 0 / 9

Stroke Order

1 diagonal top-right-to-bottom-left

2 vertical bottom-right-to-top-left

3 diagonal right-to-left

4 dot right-to-left

5 diagonal top-right-to-bottom-left

6 diagonal bottom-right-to-top-left

7 vertical bottom-right-to-top-left

8 corner bottom-right-to-top-left

9 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

ゾク zoku

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)

No common kun'yomi readings

Words Using This Kanji

144 words total

Other (20 words)

性俗せいぞく

sexual culture

俗なるぞくなる

vulgar

平俗へいぞく

commonplace

性風俗関連特殊営業せいふうぞくかんれんとくしゅえいぎょう

sex establishment (as regulated by a specific Japanese law)

性風俗産業せいふうぞくさんぎょう

sex entertainment industry

俗了ぞくりょう

vulgarization

俗神道ぞくしんとう

Folk Shinto

俗文体ぞくぶんたい

colloquial language style

衆俗しゅうぞく

the masses

群俗ぐんぞく

the masses

性風俗店せいふうぞくてん

brothel

風俗営業等取締法ふうぞくえいぎょうとうとりしまりほう

Law Regulating Adult Entertainment Businesses (1948 act, replaced in 1984)

風俗歌ふうぞくうた

folk songs

風俗アイドルふうぞくアイドル

star of the demimonde

popular psychology

good morals

strange custom

offense against public morals

世俗国家せぞくこっか

secular state

愚俗ぐぞく

foolish customs

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