長齋
cháng​zhāi

lifelong vegetarianism

  • created sense approved 长斋/長齋 · cháng​zhāi · lifelong vegetarianism — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    长斋 / 長齋

    cháng​zhāi

    lifelong vegetarianism

    Buddhist term for a lifelong or permanent abstention from eating meat, fish, and other non-vegetarian foods

    长 (literal) → 长/長 · cháng · long 斋 (literal) → 斋/齋 · zhāi · to fast

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense