Chinese Character Wiki

斋

zhāi

vegetarian diet

Components
文 meaning component

文  Meaning component

wén

  

writing

culture

而 unknown component

而  Unknown component

ér

  

and

Evolution

斋 Bronze script Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)

Bronze script

Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)
斋 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
斋 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
斋 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
斋 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

斋 (齋) 

zhāi

vegetarian diet; study; to fast, abstain; to fast or abstain from meat, wine etc; study room; building; to give alms (to a monk)

斋 (亝) 

zhāi

old variant of 齋|斋[zhāi]

Most common words with 斋
Freq.
Word
Meaning

斋

study room

斋戒

to fast

斋藤

Saitō (Japanese surname)

书斋

study (room)

斋月

Ramadan (Islam)

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

2404th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Traditional

齋

Unicode

U+658B


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