old variant of 齋|斋[zhai1]
to fast or abstain from meat, wine etc / vegetarian diet / study room / building / to give alms (to a monk)

斋 character breakdown

surname Wen
language / culture / writing / formal / literary / gentle / (old) classifier for coins / Kangxi radical 67

= + : Willy Walrus just entered the encampment. He wants to give his beret to the cloakroom personnel, but it's so dirty that they will only touch it with pliers. Willy Walrus is quite offended by this strange culture.

= + : A thick book.
and / as well as / and so / but (not) / yet (not) / (indicates causal relation) / (indicates change of state) / (indicates contrast)

= 𦉫 + : A comb. Albert Einstein is getting ready to go out just inside the entrance of the space station. He put up some loud music on the stereo and tries to comb his hair with his comb and the help of a wind wheel.

Characters with 斋 as component

斋 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 斋

to abstain from eating meat / to be a vegetarian
Lent (Christian period of forty days before Easter)
see 開齋節|开斋节[Kai1 zhai1 jie2]
to fast / to abstain from food
Lent (Christian period of forty days before Easter)
great fast / Christian lent
fast (in several religions) / Ramadan (Islam) / see also 齋月|斋月[Zhai1 yue4]
to beg for (vegetarian) food
vegetarian food
Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio, Qing dynasty book of tales by 蒲松齡|蒲松龄[Pu2 Song1 ling2]
to stop following a vegetarian diet / to break a fast
Eid al-Fitr or Feast of Breaking the Fast, celebrated on the last day of Ramadan
dining hall in a Buddhist temple
Zhaijiao sect of Buddhism
(religious) offerings
to beg for food (of monks)

Sentences with 斋

斋 currently does not appear in any sentence.