The monks each return to their own quarters after the evening lesson.
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寮 rarely stands alone in modern Chinese; it survives in 茅寮 (a thatched hut), monastery terms like 僧寮, and the country name 寮国 (Laos, in Taiwan usage). It joins the roof radical 宀 with the phonetic 尞.
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Literary and regional; appears in set compounds and old texts, and as 寮国 in Taiwan, where the mainland writes 老挝.
