zhāi
vegetarian diet
Phonosemantic compound. 齊 represents the meaning and 小 represents the sound.
Evolution
Bronze script
Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 齋
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
study room | ||
to fast | ||
Saitō (Japanese surname) | ||
study (room) | ||
Ramadan (Islam) |
Sources