zhāi​jiào

religious ceremony

  • created sense approved 斋醮/齋醮 · zhāi​jiào · religious ceremony — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    斋醮 / 齋醮

    zhāi​jiào

    religious ceremony

    Buddhist or Daoist religious services involving fasting and prayers to spirits or deities to seek blessings and ward off calamities

    斋 (literal) → 斋/齋 · zhāi · religious service 醮 (literal) → 醮 · jiào · sacrifice ritual

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

    created sense