斋
Traditional 齋
Meanings
- to fast or abstain from meat, wine etc
- vegetarian diet
- study room
- building
- to give alms (to a monk)
- old variant of 齋|斋[zhai1]
Its parts
Traditional 齋 is 齊 and 小.
Dictionaries file it under 文.
Words with 斋
- 斋戒 to observe a religious fast
- 书斋 study (room)
- 斋饭 food given to Buddhist monks as alms
- 吃斋 to abstain from eating meat
- 化斋 to beg for food (of monks)
- 聊斋志异 Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio…
- 开斋节 Eid al-Fitr, festival that marks the end…
- 斋月 Ramadan (Islam)
- 封斋 fast (in several religions)
- 斋堂 dining hall in a Buddhist temple
- 斋藤 Saitō (Japanese surname)
- 开斋 to stop following a vegetarian diet