斋
zhāi

vegetarian diet

斋 (齋) zhāi
fast noun
to fast or abstain from meat, wine, and certain foods for religious reasons

他为了祈福而决定吃斋。

tā wèi le qí​fú ér jué​dìng chī​zhāi.

He decided to eat a vegetarian diet to pray for blessings.

give alms noun
to provide food or charity to monks or religious practitioners

他在寺庙里斋僧布施。

tā zài sì​miào lǐ zhāi sēng bù​shī.

He provided food for the monks and gave alms at the temple.

study room noun
a room used for study or reading, or a specific name for a building or shop

他的书斋里堆满了各种典籍。

tā de shū zhāi lǐ duī​mǎn le gè zhǒng diǎn​jí.

His study is filled with various ancient texts.

vegetarian diet noun
vegetarian food, particularly that served in a religious or formal context

这里的斋菜做得很地道。

zhè​lǐ de zhāi cài zuò de hěn dì​dao.

The vegetarian food here is very authentic.

Frequency
Character
Written text
2,404th most common 21.7 per million
Movie subtitles
3,419th most common 1.67 per million appears in 1% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
1.01 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
5.33 per million

Details
Traditional
齋
Strokes
10
Unicode
U+658B

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)