to abstain from meat, alcohol, and spicy foods for religious or ceremonial reasons, or to purify one's mind and body

(bound form) Vegetarian diet, especially food eaten by Buddhists or Daoists.

(bound form) A room for study; also used in the names of schools, dormitories, or shops.

(bound form) To provide food as charity to monks or Daoist priests.

(old variant) neat; even; level with; identical; simultaneous; all together; to even something out

to fast; to practice abstinence; to provide food to monks or priests

room, such as a study, shop, or dormitory

vegetarian food, especially as consumed by religious practitioners

the custom of fasting in Islam; Ramadan

a Chinese surname