Kanji
俗
N1
9 strokes
Grade 8
freq #1610
vulgar, customs, manners, worldliness, mundane things
On'yomi (音読み)
ゾク
On'yomi compounds (音読み)
風俗
ふうぞく
manners; customs
風俗営業
ふうぞくえいぎょう
businesses offering food and entertainment; cabaret, club, gambling and restaurant businesses
世俗
せぞく
worldly things; common customs
民俗芸能
みんぞくげいのう
folk entertainment
俗
ぞく
layman (esp. as opposed to a Buddhist monk); laity
習俗
しゅうぞく
manners and customs; folkways
良俗
りょうぞく
good custom
土俗
どぞく
local customs
俗語
ぞくご
colloquialism; colloquial language
通俗
つうぞく
popular; common
Kun'yomi words (訓読み)
俗に
ぞくに
commonly (called, said, etc.); popularly
Example sentences
その地方（ちほう）ではその古（ふる）い風俗（ふうぞく）がなお存続（そんぞく）している。
The old custom is still kept up in that district.
だが、概（おおむ）ね天皇（てんのう）は世俗（せぞく）権力（けんりょく）を追求（ついきゅう）することなく存続（そんぞく）してきたようです。
However, in general, it seems that the Emperors had continued without seeking worldly power.