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