斋
Ancient forms
2 formsGlyphs: Wikimedia Commons, public domain.
Meaning
zhāi zhai1
- to fast or abstain from meat, wine etc
- vegetarian diet
- study room
- building
- to give alms (to a monk)
Words with 斋
- 大斋 dàzhāi to fast
- 化斋 huàzhāi to beg for food (of monks)
- 开斋 kāizhāi to stop following a vegetarian diet
- 打斋 dǎzhāi to beg for (vegetarian) food
- 书斋 shūzhāi study (room)
- 斋期 zhāiqī fasting days
- 素斋 sùzhāi vegetarian food
- 斋果 zhāiguǒ (religious) offerings
- 吃斋 chīzhāi to abstain from eating meat
- 斋饭 zhāifàn food given to Buddhist monks as alms
- 斋堂 zhāitáng dining hall in a Buddhist temple
- 守斋 shǒuzhāi to fast