斋
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to fast or abstain from meat, wine etc; vegetarian diet; study room; building; to give alms (to a monk)
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 文 +6
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 斋
- Common rank
- #2,091
- Unicode
- U+658B
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Formation & memory
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Words with 斋
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| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 大开斋 | see 開齋節|开斋节[Kai1 zhai1 jie2] | |
| 大斋节 | great fast; Christian lent | |
| 大斋期 | Lent (Christian period of forty days before Easter) | |
| 开斋节 | (Islam) Eid al-Fitr, festival that marks the end of Ramadan | |
| 封斋节 | Lent | |
| 大斋 | to fast; to abstain from food | |
| 化斋 | to beg for food (of monks) | |
| 开斋 | to stop following a vegetarian diet; to break a fast | |
| 打斋 | to beg for (vegetarian) food | |
| 书斋 | study (room) | |
| 斋教 | Zhaijiao sect of Buddhism | |
| 斋月 | Ramadan (Islam) | |
| 斋期 | fasting days; a fast | |
| 素斋 | vegetarian food | |
| 斋戒节 | festival of fasting (esp. Eid al-Fitr) | |
| 斋果 | (religious) offerings | |
| 吃斋 | to abstain from eating meat; to be a vegetarian | |
| 聊斋志异 | Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio, Qing dynasty book of tales by 蒲松齡|蒲松龄[Pu2 Song1 lin… | |
| 斋饭 | food given to Buddhist monks as alms | |
| 斋堂 | dining hall in a Buddhist temple |