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1 monk

2 nun (Buddhist or Daoist)

1 to leave home (to become a Buddhist monk or nun)

1 pedestrian

2 walker

3 itinerant monk

1 Fahai, name of the evil Buddhist monk in Tale of the White Snake 白蛇傳

1 elder

2 term of respect for a Buddhist monk

1 Jigong or Daoji (1130-1207), Southern Song Dynasty Buddhist monk

1 benefactor (term used by a monk to address a layperson)

2 donor (semiconductor)

1 lit. three monks have no water to drink (idiom)

2 fig. everybody's business is nobody's business

3 (If there is one monk, he will fetch water for himself. If there are two, they will fetch water together. But if there are three or more, none will take it upon himself to fetch water.)

1 to administer a monastery Buddhist or Daoist

2 abbot

3 head monk

1 lit. as a monk for today, toll today's bell (idiom)

2 fig. to do one's job mechanically

3 to hold a position passively

1 (of a monk) to travel

2 itinerant

1 monk fruit, the sweet fruit of Siraitia grosvenorii, a vine of the Curcubitaceae family native to southern China and northern Thailand, used in Chinese medicine

1 Buddhist monk

1 monk (Sanskrit: Sramana, originally refers to north India)

2 Buddhist monk

1 to leave the hospital

2 (old) (of a monk) to leave the monastery

1 the monk can run away, but the temple won't run with him (idiom)

2 you can run this time, but you'll have to come back

3 I'll get you sooner or later

4 also written 跑得了和尚，跑不了廟|跑得了和尚，跑不了庙[pǎo dé liǎo hé shàng , pǎo bù liǎo miào]

1 to travel widely (esp. as Daoist priest or Buddhist monk)

1 honored sir (a person of higher status or seniority, or a Buddhist monk)