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世俗

shì sú

2-character word

What 世俗 means

1. profane
2. secular
3. worldly

The characters in 世俗

• 世shìlife; age; generation
• 俗súcustom; convention; popular

Example sentences

• 生活从不会停止，但世俗生活却会。
  Shēnghuó cóngbù huì tíngzhǐ, dàn shìsú shēnghuó què huì.
  Life never ends but earthly life does.

Words containing 世俗

• 沾染世俗zhān rǎn shì súto be corrupted by the ways of the world (idiom)

Sounds the same

Read shì sú, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 释俗to explain in simple terms