Chuān zhe bǎinàyī de lǎo héshang mànmàn shàng shān.
The old monk in his patched robe slowly went up the mountain.
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衲 originally meant a robe sewn from many cloth scraps, the dress of a monk. By extension monks call themselves 老衲. It rarely stands alone in modern Chinese, surviving in 百衲衣 and Buddhist literature. Built on the clothing radical 衤.
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Literary and Buddhist. 衲 appears in classical poetry and temple contexts, not in everyday speech.
