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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

世俗

shìsú

profane

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

profane

02

secular

03

worldly

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 世俗 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 世俗 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

生活从不会停止,但世俗生活却会。shēng huó cóng bù huì tíng zhǐ, dàn shì sú shēng huó què huì。

Life never ends but earthly life does.

世俗的人,都喜欢别人和自己相同而厌恶别人和自己不同。shì sú de rén, dōu xǐ huān bié rén hé zì jǐ xiāng tóng ér yàn wù bié rén hé zì jǐ bù tóng。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 世俗.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 世俗.

Directly before

  • 但世俗1

Directly after

  • 世俗生活1
  • 世俗的1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY

Where this entry comes from

The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.

Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

COMMON QUESTIONS

About 世俗

What does 世俗 mean in Chinese?

世俗 (shìsú) means profane.

How do you pronounce 世俗?

世俗 is pronounced shìsú.

Is 世俗 an HSK word?

世俗 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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