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Chinese dictionary
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v.fast
开斋
break one's fast
斋戒
fast
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n.vegetarian diet; vegetarian food
吃斋
be vegetarian
synonym
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n.room; building; dormitory; shop
新斋
new house
书斋
study
第三斋
Building No.3
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v.donate food; give alms to a monk or a Taoist
斋僧
give alms to a monk
synonym
Words and phrases with 斋
- 斋月[word]Ramadan
- 斋果[word]offering
- 斋期[word]fast
- 斋坛[word]altar used by the emperor to make offerings to Heaven and Earth; altar
- 斋戒节[word]Ramadan
- 斋戒[word]purify oneself before making an offering; abstain from meat, wine, etc.
- 斋饭[word]food given to monks as alms; vegetarian meal in a temple
- 斋醮[word]set up an altar for prayer rites
- 斋谷[word]Lent corn
- 斋戒沐浴[idiom]fast and bathe before a religious observance to show one's piety towards God