俗
sú
#1,352 most
frequent character
custom, convention, popular, common
Character breakdown
Source: Make Me a Hanzi.
俗 has 亻 person as a picture part and 谷 gǔ as its sound part, close in rhyme. It first meant customs or convention, then grew to popular or common, and later to vulgar or lay.
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