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  *俗* | 俗* | *俗
custom / convention / popular / common / coarse / vulgar / secular
HSK 7-9
common saying / proverb / colloquial speech
HSK 7-9
common saying / proverb
HSK 7-9
as the proverb says / as they say...
HSK 7-9
commonly referred to as / common term
common saying / proverb
common people / laity (i.e. not priests)
tacky / inelegant / in poor taste / vulgar / banal
vernacular name / lay name (of a priest)
nonstandard form of a Chinese character
layman / layperson / original home of a monk
everyday routine / ordinary affairs
conventional patterns / cliché
nonstandard form of a Chinese character
intolerably vulgar
the mundane world; the world of mortals
(slang) (Tw) coward; paper tiger; a nobody (from Taiwanese 卒仔, Tai-lo pr. [tsut-á])
Extraordinary people in our ordinary world, short stories by novelist Feng Jicai 馮驥才|冯骥才
clichéd / tacky
common sayings (idiom); widely circulated proverbs
customs change with time (idiom); other times, other manners / O Tempora, O Mores!


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