庸俗 yōngsú vulgar
vulgar; tacky; tawdry
怎么记住“庸俗”: 庸 usual + 俗 social customs = vulgar.
汉字
用法
- Vulgar/tawdry - lacking taste or refinement - 庸俗的笑话 (yōngsú de xiàohua) a vulgar joke; 趣味庸俗 (qùwèi yōngsú) tacky taste.
- A cultural/aesthetic put-down about crassness or philistinism, not obscenity per se.
- Contrast 低俗 (dīsú), which is more coarse/lowbrow; 庸俗 stresses banal, tasteless mediocrity.