齋 — Chinese character
齋
zhāi
to fast, to abstain; a vegetarian diet
- Pinyin
- zhāi
- Radical
- 210 ⿑ (Even)
- Strokes
- 17
- Components
- 齊 小
- Formation
- pictophonetic — even; meaning component 齊; sound component 小
- Simplified
- 斋
- Japanese
- 齋 as a kanji
齋 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Zhuangzi 8
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