齋

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

small / tiny / few / young

(name of states and dynasties at several different periods) / surname Qi

neat / even / level with / identical / simultaneous / all together / to even sth out

to fast

study (room)

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

to fast

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

Lent

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

Ramadan

Zhaijiao sect of Buddhism

to beg for food (of monks)

to abstain from eating meat / to be a vegetarian