How suitable is "僧侶" for "priest"? Page 79 of Fluent Forever's "Awesome Word List" for Japanese gives as the Japanese word for "priest", listed just after "" for "church". How suitable is it for "priest", if at all? Doing a google image search for "" mainly gave Buddhists (though that could be because more Chinese-speakers and Japanese-speakers are Buddhists than Christians), the English language Wiktionary translates it as Buddhist monks, while jisho.org says "priest; monk​ - Buddhist term" (seemingly saying that both "priest" and "monk" are Buddhist terms). The Japanese language's disambiguation page for ) has mention of Christianity.

() is sometimes used as a catch-all term for priests and monks of non-Asian religions. This is typically true for imaginary religions in fiction. For example priests/ in _Dragon Quest_ franchise do not look like that of Buddhism at all.

is rare for Christian clergies because Christianity has the set of better-known terms like .