斋

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)

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

and / as well as / and so / but (not) / yet (not) / (indicates causal relation) / (indicates change of state) / (indicates contrast)

to fast

Ramadan (Islam)

fasting days / a fast

study (room)

to fast / to abstain from food

Lent (Christian period of forty days before Easter)

great fast / Christian lent

to fast

fast (in several religions) / Ramadan (Islam) / see also 齋月|斋月[Zhai1 yue4]

Lent

to beg for food (of monks)

to beg for (vegetarian) food

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

Ramadan

Zhaijiao sect of Buddhism

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]