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SimplifiedTraditionalPinyinEnglish
- custom
- convention
- popular
- common
- coarse
- vulgar
- secular
- original
- not hackneyed
shì- profane
- secular
- worldly
- vulgar
- poor taste
shì- the vulgar world (Buddhist concept)
- secular world
shì- everyday routine
- ordinary affairs
rén- common people
- laity (i.e. not priests)
míng- common name
tào- conventional patterns
- cliché
- common form of Chinese character (as opposed to etymologically correct form 正體字|正体字)
- same as 體字|体字
jiā- layman
- layperson
- original home of a monk
- tacky
- inelegant
- in poor taste
- vulgar
- banal
làn- clichéd
- tacky
chēng- commonly referred to as
- common term
huà- common saying
- proverb
- common saying
- proverb
- colloquial speech
yàn- common saying
- proverb
- (Taiwan slang) coward
- paper tiger
- a nobody
sēng- laymen
- laity
fán- lay (as opposed to clergy)
- ordinary
- commonplace
mèi- to cater to the public's taste
- kitsch
- commercial
yōng- filthy
- vulgar
- debased
è- bad habit
- evil custom
- vulgarity
shí- prevalent custom of the time
mín- popular custom
- etiquette
- custom
- vulgar
- custom
- tradition
- local tradition
- convention
tuō- free from vulgarity
- refined
- outstanding
jiù- former custom
- old ways
luò- to show poor taste
tōng- common
- everyday
- average
huán- to return to normal life (leaving a monastic order)
- vulgar
- philistine
shì- to explain in simple terms
suí- according to custom
- to do as local custom requires
- do as the Romans do
fēng- social custom
- CL:|[ge4]
huà- vulgarization
huàshuō- as the proverb says
- as they say...
- common form of Chinese character (versus the etymologically correct form)
yōnghuà- debasement
- vulgarization
mínxué- folklore
shírén- cannibalism
luòtào- to conform to no conventional pattern
- unconventional
- offbeat
zhīfēng- vulgar style (used of items to be censored)
shìrén- Extraordinary people in our ordinary world, short stories by novelist Feng Jicai 馮驥才|冯骥才[Feng2 Ji4 cai2]
yànkǒubēi- common sayings (idiom); widely circulated proverbs
suíshíbiàn- customs change with time (idiom); other times, other manners
- O Tempora, O Mores!
shāngfēngbài- offending public morals (idiom)
jìngwèn- When you enter a country, enquire about the local customs (idiom); do as the natives do
- When in Rome, do as the Romans do
jìngsuí- When you enter a country, follow the local customs (idiom); do as the natives do
- When in Rome, do as the Romans do
xiāngsuí- When you enter a village, follow the local customs (idiom); do as the natives do
- When in Rome, do as the Romans do
fán- common people
- ordinary folk
yōngzuòpǐn- vulgar art
- art in bad taste
- kitsch
fènshì- to be cynical
- to be embittered
wèinéngmiǎn- unable to break the custom (idiom)
- bound by conventions
rǎnfēng- bad habits
- to get into bad habits through long custom
mínjiān- folk customs
zhānrǎnshì- to be corrupted by the ways of the world (idiom)
chéng- accumulated habits become custom
yuēdìngchéng- established by popular usage (idiom); common usage agreement
- customary convention
chéng- to become accustomed to sth through long practice
xìng- one's habits change with long custom
fànzi- peddlers and common people
- lower class
tōngxiǎoshuō- popular fiction
- light literature
tōngdǒng- easy to understand
tōngxué- popular science
wéishíjué- to defy the times and reject custom (idiom); in breach of current conventions
shìjué- to withdraw from society and live like a hermit (idiom)
gòngshǎng- can be enjoyed by scholars and lay-people alike (idiom)
jīngshìhài- universally shocking
- to offend the whole of society
cháotōngyǎn- Dramatized history of successive dynasties (from Han to Republican China) by Cai Dongfan 蔡東藩|蔡东藩
Mínguótōngyǎn- 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

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