"Nun" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 出家人 | chū jiā rén | monk / nun (Buddhist or Daoist) |   |
| 姑 |  gū | paternal aunt / husband's sister / husband's mother (old) / nun / for the time being (literary) | |
| 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]) | |
| 出家 | chū jiā | to enter monastic life / to become a monk or nun | |
| 尼姑 | ní gū | Buddhist nun | |
| 修女 | xiū nu:3 | nun or sister (of the Roman Catholic or Greek Orthodox churches) | |
| 嬷嬷 | mó mo | (dialect) elderly lady / wet nurse / Catholic nun | |
| 道姑 | dào gū | Daoist nun | |
| 削发 | xuē fà | to shave one's head / fig. to become a monk or nun / to take the tonsure | |
| 比丘尼 | bǐ qiū ní | Buddhist nun (loanword from Sanskrit "bhiksuni") | |
| 法衣 | fǎ yī | robe of a Buddhist priest / ceremonial garment of a Daoist priest / robe of a judge, nun, priest etc / cassock / vestment | |
| 尼 | ní | Buddhist nun / (often used in phonetic spellings) | |
| 衹 | qí | robe of a Buddhist monk or nun | |
| 黁 | nún | warm and fragrant | |
| 姑子 | gū zi | husband's sister / (coll.) Buddhist nun | |
