Negative adverb used before verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs to indicate negation; also used as a bound-form prefix to form terms with opposite meanings

Buddhist monk; an ordained male monastic; a bonze

Negative adverb used before verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs to indicate negation; also used as a bound-form prefix to form terms with opposite meanings

(bound form) the mundane world; secular as opposed to religious or monastic life