Character
RADICAL | ⿑ (210.3) |
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STROKES | 17 |
SIMPLIFIED | 斋 |
齋 zhāi
vegetarian diet; study; to fast, abstain
DEFINITIONS
- vegetarian diet
- study
- to fast, abstain
- old variant of 齋|斋[zhai1]
- to fast or abstain from meat, wine etc
- vegetarian diet
- study room
- building
- to give alms (to a monk)
WORDS
化齋 huà zhāi | to beg for food (of monks) |
吃齋 chī zhāi | to abstain from eating meat; to be a vegetarian |
四旬齋 sì xún zhāi | Lent (Christian period of forty days before Easter) |
大開齋 dà kāi zhāi | see 開齋節|开斋节[Kai1 zhai1 jie2] |
大齋 dà zhāi | to fast; to abstain from food |
大齋期 dà zhāi qī | Lent (Christian period of forty days before Easter) |
大齋節 dà zhāi jié | great fast; Christian lent |
守齋 shǒu zhāi | to fast |
封齋 fēng zhāi | fast (in several religions); Ramadan (Islam); see also 齋月|斋月[Zhai1 yue4] |
封齋節 fēng zhāi jié | Lent |
打齋 dǎ zhāi | to beg for (vegetarian) food |
書齋 shū zhāi | study (room) |
素齋 sù zhāi | vegetarian food |
聊齋志異 liáo zhāi zhì yì | Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio, Qing dynasty book of tales by 蒲松齡|蒲松龄[Pu2 Song1 ling2] |
開齋 kāi zhāi | to stop following a vegetarian diet; to break a fast |
開齋節 kāi zhāi jié | Eid al-Fitr or Feast of Breaking the Fast, celebrated on the last day of Ramadan |
齋堂 zhāi táng | dining hall in a Buddhist temple |
齋戒 zhāi jiè | to fast |
齋教 zhāi jiào | Zhaijiao sect of Buddhism |
齋月 zhāi yuè | Ramadan (Islam) |
齋期 zhāi qī | fasting days; a fast |
齋果 zhāi guǒ | (religious) offerings |
齋祭 zhāi jì | to offer sacrifices (to gods or ancestors) whilst abstaining from meat, wine etc |
齋藤 zhāi téng | Saitō (Japanese surname) |
齋飯 zhāi fàn | food given to Buddhist monks as alms |
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