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在家 zài jiā to be at home / (at a workplace) to be in (as opposed to being away on official business 出差[chu1chai1]) / (Buddhism etc) to remain a layman (as opposed to becoming a monk or a nun 出家[chu1jia1])
Buddhist nun / (often used in phonetic spellings)
paternal aunt / husband's sister / husband's mother (old) / nun / for the time being (literary)
修女 xiū nun or sister (of the Roman Catholic or Greek Orthodox churches)
尼姑 Buddhist nun
nún warm and fragrant
袈裟 jiā shā kasaya (robe of a Buddhist monk or nun) (loanword from Sanskrit)
道姑 dào Daoist nun
出家 chū jiā to enter monastic life; to become a monk or nun
嬷嬷 mo (dialect) elderly lady / wet nurse / Catholic nun
robe of a Buddhist monk or nun
姑子 zi husband's sister / (coll.) Buddhist nun
削发 xuē to shave one's head / fig. to become a monk or nun / to take the tonsure
圆寂 yuán death / to pass away (of Buddhist monks, nuns etc)
拜忏 bài chàn to hold a daytime Buddhist mass; (of a monk or nun) to read scripture to atone for sb's sins
法衣 robe of a Buddhist priest / ceremonial garment of a Daoist priest / robe of a judge, nun, priest etc / cassock / vestment
僧尼 sēng (Buddhist) monks and nuns
比丘尼 qiū Buddhist nun (loanword from Sanskrit "bhiksuni")
示寂 shì to pass away (of a monk or nun)
出家人 chū jiā rén monk; nun (Buddhist or Daoist)
看破红尘 kàn - hóng chén (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
重整奥思定会 Zhòng zhěng Ào dìng huì Order of Augustinian Recollects, a mendicant Catholic religious order of friars and nuns


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