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to be at home / (at a workplace) to be in (as opposed to being away on official business 出差) / (Buddhism etc) to remain a layman (as opposed to becoming a monk or a nun 出家)
HSK 1
(Buddhist) monks and nuns
to enter monastic life; to become a monk or nun
death / to pass away (of Buddhist monks, nuns etc)
husband's sister / (coll.) Buddhist nun
to shave one's head / fig. to become a monk or nun / to take the tonsure
Buddhist nun (loanword from Sanskrit "bhiksuni")
nun or sister (of the Roman Catholic or Greek Orthodox churches)
(dialect) elderly lady / wet nurse / Catholic nun
Buddhist nun
Daoist nun
robe of a Buddhist priest / ceremonial garment of a Daoist priest / robe of a judge, nun, priest etc / cassock / vestment
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  *姑* | 姑* | *姑
paternal aunt / husband's sister / husband's mother (old) / nun / for the time being (literary)
monk; nun (Buddhist or Daoist)
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  *尼* | 尼* | *尼
Buddhist nun / (often used in phonetic spellings)
(idiom) to see through the illusions of the material world (often a precursor to becoming a Buddhist monk or nun); to become disillusioned with human society
to hold a daytime Buddhist mass; (of a monk or nun) to read scripture to atone for sb's sins
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  *衹* | 衹* | *衹
robe of a Buddhist monk or nun
kasaya (robe of a Buddhist monk or nun) (loanword from Sanskrit)
to pass away (of a monk or nun)
Order of Augustinian Recollects, a mendicant Catholic religious order of friars and nuns


Tip: Pinyin can be entered with or without tone numbers, e.g. 'nihao' or 'ni3hao3'.
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