Dictionary content from CC-CEDICT De keizer is ver weg - boek met wilde avonturen in China

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  *尼* | 尼* | *尼
Buddhist nun / (often used in phonetic spellings)
(dialect) elderly lady / wet nurse / Catholic nun
to enter monastic life; to become a monk or nun
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  *姑* | 姑* | *姑
paternal aunt / husband's sister / husband's mother (old) / nun / for the time being (literary)
nun or sister (of the Roman Catholic or Greek Orthodox churches)
kasaya (robe of a Buddhist monk or nun) (loanword from Sanskrit)
Buddhist nun
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  *黁* | 黁* | *黁
warm and fragrant
to hold a daytime Buddhist mass; (of a monk or nun) to read scripture to atone for sb's sins
death / to pass away (of Buddhist monks, nuns etc)
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  *衹* | 衹* | *衹
robe of a Buddhist monk or nun
husband's sister / (coll.) Buddhist nun
robe of a Buddhist priest / ceremonial garment of a Daoist priest / robe of a judge, nun, priest etc / cassock / vestment
to shave one's head / fig. to become a monk or nun / to take the tonsure
(Buddhist) monks and nuns
Buddhist nun (loanword from Sanskrit "bhiksuni")
Daoist nun
to pass away (of a monk or nun)
monk; nun (Buddhist or Daoist)
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)
Order of Augustinian Recollects, a mendicant Catholic religious order of friars and nuns


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