zhāi

old variant of zhāi

Character data

Radical ⿑ (210.3)
Strokes 17
SIMPLIFIED

Definitions

齋 zhāi
  1. 1. old variant of zhāi
  2. 2. to fast or abstain from meat, wine etc
  3. 3. vegetarian diet
  4. 4. to give alms (to a monk)
  5. 5. building
  6. 6. study room

Words containing 齋

Word Meaning
to beg for food (of monks)
to abstain from eating meat; to be a vegetarian
Lent (Christian period of forty days before Easter)
to fast; to abstain from food
Lent (Christian period of forty days before Easter)
Christian lent; great fast
to fast
fast (in several religions); Ramadan (Islam)
Lent
to beg for (vegetarian) food
study (room)
vegetarian food
Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio
to stop following a vegetarian diet; to break a fast
Eid al-Fitr; Muslim festival ending Ramadan
dining hall in a Buddhist temple
to fast
Zhaijiao sect of Buddhism
Ramadan (Islam)
fasting days; a fast
(religious) offerings
to offer fasting sacrifices to gods
Saitō (Japanese surname)
food given to Buddhist monks as alms
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