Definitions
- 1. to fast or abstain from meat, wine etc
- 2. vegetarian diet
- 3. study room
- 4. building
- 5. to give alms (to a monk)
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Words Containing 斋
to beg for food (of monks)
to abstain from eating meat
Lent (Christian period of forty days before Easter)
see 開齋節|开斋节[kāi zhāi jié]
to fast
Lent (Christian period of forty days before Easter)
great fast
to fast
fast (in several religions)
Lent
to beg for (vegetarian) food
study (room)
vegetarian food
Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio, Qing dynasty book of tales by 蒲松齡|蒲松龄[pú sōng líng]
to stop following a vegetarian diet
Eid al-Fitr or Feast of Breaking the Fast, celebrated on the first day of Shawal
dining hall in a Buddhist temple
to fast
Ramadan
Zhaijiao sect of Buddhism
Ramadan (Islam)
fasting days
(religious) offerings
to offer sacrifices (to gods or ancestors) whilst abstaining from meat, wine etc
food given to Buddhist monks as alms