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

CEDICT

  1. (Buddhism, Taoism) religious ceremony (Classifier: c)
  2. (historical) to show one's piety before offering sacrifices and other ceremonies in ancient times, by abstaining from meat and alcohol, bathing oneself and clearing one's mind of distracting thoughts
  3. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) solemn; earnest
  4. a surname
  5. fasting
  6. house; shop; building
  7. religious ceremony (Classifier: c)
  8. solemn; earnest
  9. study (room); studio
  10. to give alms to monks
  11. to show one's piety before offering sacrifices and other ceremonies in ancient times, by abstaining from meat and alcohol, bathing oneself and clearing one's mind of distracting thoughts
  12. vegetarian diet (often adopted for religious reasons)

Wiktionary

  1. 祭祀沐浴素食清心寡欲潔淨身心以示虔誠
  2. 布施飯菜僧侶
  3. 素食僧侶飲食
  4. 僧侶誦經祈福活動
  5. 書房學舍
  6. 商店名號

重編國語辭典

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Containing this entry

zhāi old variant of zhāi
化齋 huàzhāi to beg for food (of monks)
吃齋 chīzhāi
  1. to abstain from eating meat
  2. to be a vegetarian
四旬齋 xúnzhāi Lent (Christian period of forty days before Easter)
大開齋 kāizhāi see 開齋節 Kāizhāijié
大齋 zhāi
  1. to fast
  2. to abstain from food
守齋 shǒuzhāi to fast
封齋 fēngzhāi
  1. fast (in several religions)
  2. Ramadan (Islam)
  3. see also 齋月 Zhāiyuè
打齋 zhāi to beg for (vegetarian) food
書齋 shūzhāi study (room)
素齋 zhāi vegetarian food
聊齋志異 Liáozhāi Zhì Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio, Qing dynasty book of tales by 蒲松齡 Sōnglíng
開齋 kāizhāi
  1. to stop following a vegetarian diet
  2. to break a fast
齋堂 zhāitáng dining hall in a Buddhist temple
齋戒 zhāijiè to observe a religious fast; to abstain from food or certain activities before a ritual
齋教 Zhāijiào Zhaijiao sect of Buddhism
齋月 Zhāiyuè Ramadan (Islam)
齋期 zhāi
  1. fasting days
  2. a fast
齋果 zhāiguǒ (religious) offerings
齋祭 zhāi to offer sacrifices (to gods or ancestors) whilst abstaining from meat, wine etc
齋藤 Zhāiténg Saitō (Japanese surname)
齋飯 zhāifàn food given to Buddhist monks as alms
齋月 zhāiyuè
羅漢齋 luóhànzhāi
齋菜 zhāicài
齋浦爾 Zhāipǔ'ěr
四齋蒸鵝心 zhāizhēngéxīn
齋教 zhāijiào
持齋 chízhāi
聊齋誌異 Liáozhāizhì
把齋 zhāi
齋戲 zhāi
齋米粉 zhāifěn
齋桑 zhāisāng
長齋 chángzhāi
齋會 zhāihuì
齋腸 zhāicháng
齋日 zhāi
六齋 Liùzhāi
十齋 Shízhāi

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