zhāi

vegetarian diet

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
齊 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

even, uniform

小 sound component

  Sound component

xiǎo

  

small

Evolution

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

Bronze script

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

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
齋 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

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zhāi

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

Most common words with 齋
Freq.
Word
Meaning

study room

斋戒

to fast

斋藤

Saitō (Japanese surname)

书斋

study (room)

斋月

Ramadan (Islam)

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*tsˤr[ə]j

tsreaj

zhāi

purify oneself


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

2404th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

17

Simplified

Unicode

U+9F4B

Shuowen

“齋,戒潔也。从示,齊省聲。,籀文齋从省。”


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