斋 (齋) zhāi

1. zhāi verb to abstain from meat or wine
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: Usually a Buddhist context (Kroll 2015 '齋' 2; Mathews 1931 '齋', p. 12; NCCED '斋' 1; Unihan '齋')
2. zhāi noun a vegetarian diet; vegetarian food
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 素食 (ABC 'zhāi' 斋 bf 1; Guoyu '齋' n 1; NCCED '斋' 3; Unihan '齋')
3. zhāi noun a building; a room; a studio
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (ABC 'zhāi' 斋 bf 2; Guoyu '齋' n 3; NCCED '斋' 2)
4. zhāi verb to give alms
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Guoyu '齋' v 2; NCCED '斋' 4)
5. zhāi verb to fast
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (ABC 'zhāi' 斋 bf 6; NCCED '斋' 5; Unihan '齋')
6. zhāi noun student dormitory
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (ABC 'zhāi' 斋 bf 3; Guoyu '齋' n 3)
7. zhāi noun a study; a library; a school
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (ABC 'zhāi' 斋 bf 4; Mathews 1931 '齋', p. 12)
8. zhāi noun a temple hostel
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (ABC 'zhāi' 斋 bf 5)
9. zhāi verb to purify oneself
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: Before a ritual by bathing, fasting, or meditation (ABC 'zhāi' 斋 bf 6; Guoyu '齋' v 1; Kroll 2015 '齋' 1; Mathews 1931 '齋', p. 12)
10. zhāi verb to retreat
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: For reading, writing, or contemplation (Kroll 2015 '齋' 3)
11. zhāi noun various rituals
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Taoism
    Notes: (Guoyu '齋' n 2; Kroll 2015 '齋' 4)

Contained in

• 斋祭(齋祭) to offer sacrifices (to gods or ancestors) whilst abstaining from meat, wine etc
• 斋祈(齋祈) to fast and pray
• 大斋节(大齋節) great fast; Christian lent
• 斋居(齋居) live in retirement
• 开斋节(開齋節) Eid al-Fitr; Feast of Breaking the Fast
• 开斋(開齋) to stop following a vegetarian diet; to break a fast
• 真武斋(真武齋) zhenwu fasting
• 斋心(齋心) to purify the mind
• 斋慄(齋慄) to show great respect; in awe of
• 大斋期(大齋期) Lent (Christian period of forty days before Easter)
• 斋屋(齋屋) a study
• 打斋(打齋) to beg for vegetarian food
• 斋戒沐浴(齋戒沐浴) a purifying bath
• 斋饭(齋飯) food given to Buddhist monks as alms
• 封斋(封齋) fast (in several religions); Ramadan (Islam)
• 斋戒月(齋戒月) Ramadan
• 斋夫(齋夫) a library assistant; school administrator
• 斋坛(齋壇) an altar for ritual food offerings
• 斋期(齋期) fasting days; a fast
• 斋堂(齋堂) food hall
• 食斋(食齋) a vegetarian diet as a religious custom
• 间斋(間齋) a private studio
• 斋舍(齋舍) a library; a study ; a school dormitory
• 九皇斋(九皇齋) to fast on the 9th lunar month for the first 9 days
• 书斋(書齋) a study; a study room; a studio
• 斋月(齋月) Ramadan
• 斋衬(齋襯) to give alms; to donate
• 斋馆(齋館) a vegetarian restaurant; a vegetarian food hall
• 斋藤(齋藤) Saitō (Japanese surname)
• 守斋(守齋) to fast
• 斋庄(齋莊) reverent
• 斋戒(齋戒) to abstain from eating meat ; Sawm; Fasting ; a purification rule
• 龟王斋(龜王齋) guiwang fasting
• 月落斋(月落齋) fasting on the final day of the month
• 日落斋(日落齋) fasting until sunset
• 斋果(齋果) (religious) offerings
• 城隍斋(城隍齋) fasting on the 1st and 15th
• 四旬斋(四旬齋) Lent
• 封斋节(封齋節) Lent
• 吃斋(吃齋) to abstain from eating meat; to be a vegetarian
• 斋居蔬食(齋居蔬食) to live a plain and simple life

Also contained in

诚斋乐府 、 聊斋志异 、 聊斋 、 于厚斋 、 鲁斋郎 、 脂砚斋 、 老官斋教

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• 卷九十九 志第七十五 藝文四 Volume 99 Treatises 75: Arts and Literature 4 History of Ming 明史 — count: 68
• 卷七十三　志第二十四: 　祭祀二 Volume 73 Treatises 26: Offerings 2 History of Yuan 元史 — count: 43
• 卷七十六　志第二十七上: 祭祀五 Volume 76 Treatises 29: Offerings 5 History of Yuan 元史 — count: 26
• 第四十七回 Chapter 47 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 26
• 卷四十七 志第二十三 禮一 Volume 47 Treatises 23: Rites 1 History of Ming 明史 — count: 26
• 卷十一　　　　　志第一　　　　禮樂一 Volume 11 Treatises 1: Rites and Music 1 New Book of Tang 新唐書 — count: 26
• 卷七十四　志第二十五: 　祭祀三 Volume 74 Treatises 27: Offerings 3 History of Yuan 元史 — count: 23
• 第九十六回 Chapter 96 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 23
• 卷一百〇一 志第五十四 禮四 Volume 101 Treatises 54: Rites 4 History of Song 宋史 — count: 23
• 卷二十八　志第九:　禮一 郊 Volume 28 Treatises 9: Rites 1 - Jiao History of Jin 金史 — count: 23

Collocations

• 斋三 (齋三) 齋三日 — Garden of Stories 說苑, 卷十九 修文 Chapter 19: Cultivation and Education — count: 36
• 祝斋 (祝齋) 祝齋三日 — Luxuriant Dew of the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋繁露, 卷十六 執贄第七十二 山川頌第七十三 求雨第七十四 止雨第七十五 祭義第七十六 循天之道第七十七　Scroll 16 — count: 11
• 斋七 (齋七) 齋七日 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷十上 皇后紀 Volume 10a: Annals of Empresses 1 — count: 6
• 斋宫 (齋宮) 子嬰遂刺殺高於齋宮 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《秦始皇本紀》 Annals of Qin Shi Huang — count: 5
• 斋衣 (齋衣) 乃使出取齋衣 — Book of Han 漢書, 卷七十四 魏相丙吉傳 Volume 74: Wei Xiang and Bing Ji — count: 4
• 致斋 (致齋) 致齋三日 — Book of Song 宋書, 卷十四 志第四 禮一 Volume 14 Treatises 4: Rituals 1 — count: 4
• 斋禁 (齋禁) 大王齋禁 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷十二 王劉張李彭盧列傳 Volume 12: Biographies of Wang, Liu, Zhang, Li, Peng, Lu — count: 3
• 斋五 (齋五) 齋五日 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《秦始皇本紀》 Annals of Qin Shi Huang — count: 3
• 絜斋 (絜齋) 長吏各絜齋禱請 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷二 顯宗孝明帝紀 Volume 2: Annals of Emperor Xianzong Xiaoming — count: 3
• 斋内 (齋內) 吳郡太守張懋聞齋內床下犬聲 — Book of Jin 晉書, 卷二十八 志第十八 五行中 Volume 28 Treatises 18: Five Elements Part Two — count: 3