to fast or abstain from meat, wine etc / vegetarian diet / study room / building / to give alms (to a monk)

齋 character breakdown

small / tiny / few / young

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a small daisy. 小 looks like the stem 亅 of the flower is pushing aside the earth 八 as it grows out of the seed in the ground.

Xi Shi (xi) is decorating her hair with lots of small (小) daisies (mnemonic symbol for 小) in the aorta's living room (ao3). She wants to have lots of daisies in the future as well, so she plants new daisies. She found that the perfect substrate for planting daisies is made by crushing eight-balls (八) with a crow bar (亅).
(name of states and dynasties at several different periods) / surname Qi

= + 丿 + : The Queen of Hearts (qi) built a drum and a gong (齐). She made the drum by carving a hole into a big book (文) and spanning a hide over the hole very evenly (齐). The gong also consists of a huge book which has been cast in bronze, and its surface is quite even (齐). She can readily beat the drum using a dinosaur bone (丨), but when she strikes the gong with a banana (丿), the gong doesn't make any sound. The drum is ready, but the gong is not.
neat / even / level with / identical / simultaneous / all together / to even sth out

= + 丿 + : The Queen of Hearts (qi) built a drum and a gong (齐). She made the drum by carving a hole into a big book (文) and spanning a hide over the hole very evenly (齐). The gong also consists of a huge book which has been cast in bronze, and its surface is quite even (齐). She can readily beat the drum using a dinosaur bone (丨), but when she strikes the gong with a banana (丿), the gong doesn't make any sound. The drum is ready, but the gong is not.

Characters with 齋 as component

齋 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 齋

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
to beg for food (of monks)
to abstain from eating meat / to be a vegetarian

Sentences with 齋

齋 currently does not appear in any sentence.