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HSK
impressive / out of the ordinary
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *俗* | 俗* | *俗
custom / convention / popular / common / coarse / vulgar / secular
HSK 7-9
profane / secular / worldly
folklore
to conform to no conventional pattern / unconventional / offbeat
common saying / proverb / colloquial speech
HSK 7-9
established by popular usage (idiom); common usage agreement / customary convention
HSK 7-9
to cater to the public's taste / kitsch / commercial
nonstandard form of a Chinese character
clichéd
everyday routine / ordinary affairs
common / everyday / average
HSK 7-9
vulgarization
vulgar / poor taste
prevalent custom of the time
common saying / proverb
HSK 7-9
lit. when you enter a country, follow the local customs (idiom) / fig. when in Rome, do as the Romans do
commonly referred to as / common term
the mundane world; the world of mortals
undesirable customs
universally shocking / to offend the whole of society
popular custom
HSK 7-9
can be enjoyed by scholars and lay-people alike (idiom)
prevalent fashion (often used pejoratively) / vulgar customs
common people; ordinary folk
common people / laity (i.e. not priests)
vulgar / tacky / tawdry
HSK 7-9
peddlers and common people / lower class
intolerably vulgar
(idiom) to reform habits and customs
When you enter a village, follow the local customs (idiom); do as the natives do / When in Rome, do as the Romans do
easy to understand
as the proverb says / as they say...
HSK 7-9
conventional patterns / cliché
layman / layperson / original home of a monk
common sayings (idiom); widely circulated proverbs
customs change with time (idiom); other times, other manners / O Tempora, O Mores!
social custom / CL: 個|个
HSK 4
to explain in simple terms
(idiom) to withdraw from society and live in seclusion
common saying / proverb
mundane world
bad habit / evil custom / vulgarity
vulgar
When you enter a country, enquire about the local customs (idiom); do as the natives do / When in Rome, do as the Romans do
to be cynical / to be embittered
tacky / inelegant / in poor taste / vulgar / banal
etiquette / custom
unable to break the custom (idiom) / bound by conventions
vernacular name / lay name (of a priest)
popular science
marriage custom
to show poor taste
Dramatized history of successive dynasties (from Han to Republican China) by Cai Dongfan 蔡東藩|蔡东藩
former custom; old ways
to put it in simple terms, ...
to defy the times and reject custom (idiom); in breach of current conventions
cannibalism
bad habits / to get into bad habits through long custom
nonstandard form of a Chinese character
clichéd / tacky
debasement; vulgarization
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
Buddhist monks and secular people
lay (as opposed to clergy) / ordinary / commonplace
accumulated habits become custom
popular fiction / light literature
custom / tradition / local tradition / convention
HSK 7-9
to be corrupted by the ways of the world (idiom)
(slang) (Tw) coward; paper tiger; a nobody (from Taiwanese 卒仔, Tai-lo pr. [tsut-á])
to become accustomed to sth through long practice
Extraordinary people in our ordinary world, short stories by novelist Feng Jicai 馮驥才|冯骥才
folk customs
vulgar / philistine
vulgar style (used of items to be censored)
according to custom / to do as local custom requires / do as the Romans do
offending public morals (idiom)
free from vulgarity / refined / outstanding
one's habits change with long custom
to return to normal life (leaving a monastic order)


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