脱俗

See also: 脫俗

Chinese

For pronunciation and definitions of 脱俗 – see 脫俗 (“to keep aloof from the worldly affairs; to be free of all vulgarity; etc.”). (This term is the simplified and variant traditional form of 脫俗).

Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia, and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

Japanese

Kanji in this term
脱	俗
だつ Grade: S	ぞく Grade: S
on’yomi

Alternative spelling
脫俗 (kyūjitai)

Noun

脱(だつ)俗(ぞく) • (datsuzoku) 

1. unworldliness, the quality of being beyond worldly matters, saintliness
   • 2005, Masanori Kabashima, E o mite dekiru zenteki taisō [Zen exercise through looking at pictures], page 26:

     脱(だつ)俗(ぞく)というと、俗(ぞく)世(せ)間(けん)を捨(す)てて、お坊(ぼう)さんになることだ、と思(おも)っている人(ひと)がいますが、それは表(ひょう)層(そう)の事(こと)柄(がら)です。

     Datsuzoku to iu to, zokuseken o sutete, obōsan ni naru koto da, to omotteiru hito ga imasu ga, sore wa hyōsō no kotogara desu.

     People think datsuzoku is discarding the secular world to become a monk, but that is only the surface of things.

Verb

脱(だつ)俗(ぞく)する • (datsuzoku suru) suru (stem 脱(だつ)俗(ぞく)し (datsuzoku shi), past 脱(だつ)俗(ぞく)した (datsuzoku shita))

1. to rise above worldly affairs, to be detached from the world