闍

defensive platform over gate / barbican

(used in transliteration from Sanskrit)

(after a verb or adjective) one who (is) ... / (after a noun) person involved in ... / -er / -ist / (used after a number or 後|后[hou4] or 前[qian2] to refer to sth mentioned previously) / (used after a term, to mark a pause before defining the term) / (old) (used at the end of a command) / (old) this

gate / door / CL:扇[shan4] / gateway / doorway / CL:個|个[ge4] / opening / valve / switch / way to do something / knack / family / house / (religious) sect / school (of thought) / class / category / phylum or division (taxonomy) / classifier for large guns / classifier for lessons, subjects, branches of technology / (suffix) -gate (i.e. scandal; derived from Watergate)

blind monk / refers to famous blind historian 左丘明[Zuo3 Qiu1 ming2]

Buddhist teacher (Sanskrit transliteration) / also written 阿闍梨|阿阇梨[a1 she2 li2]

Buddhist teacher (Sanskrit transliteration) / also written 阿闍黎|阿阇黎[a1 she2 li2]

Buddhist teacher (Sanskrit transliteration) / also written 闍梨|阇梨[she2 li2]

Buddhist monk (Sanskrit: jala)