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齋

齋

See also: 斋 and 斎

Translingual

Traditional 齋
Shinjitai 斎
Simplified 斋

Han character

齋 (radical 210 齊+3, 17 strokes, cangjie input 卜X火 (YXF), four-corner 00223, composition ⿵齊小)

  1. vegetarian diet
  2. study (room)
  3. to fast, abstain

References

  • KangXi: page 1531, character 12
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 48565
  • Dae Jaweon: page 2069, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4785, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+9F4B

Chinese

trad. 齋
simp. 斋

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (齊) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
儕 *zriːl
麡 *zriːl, *ʔsliːl, *zliːl
齋 *ʔsriːl
穧 *ʔsleds, *ʔsliːls, *zliːls
擠 *ʔsliːl, *ʔsliːls
躋 *ʔsliːl, *ʔsliːls
齏 *ʔsliːl
齎 *ʔsliːl, *ʔslil
櫅 *ʔsliːl
齌 *ʔsliːl, *sʰliːl, *zliːls
隮 *ʔsliːl, *ʔsliːls
賷 *ʔsliːl
虀 *ʔsliːl
濟 *ʔsliːlʔ, *ʔsliːls
癠 *ʔsliːlʔ, *zliːl, *zliːlʔ, *zliːls
霽 *ʔsliːls
齊 *zliːl, *zliːls
臍 *zliːl
蠐 *zliːl, *zlil
懠 *zliːl, *zliːls
薺 *zliːlʔ, *zlil
鱭 *zliːlʔ
嚌 *zliːls
劑 *zliːls, *ʔslel
齍 *ʔslil

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 齋
Mandarin Beijing /ʈ͡ʂai⁵⁵/
Harbin /t͡sai⁴⁴/
/ʈ͡ʂai⁴⁴/
Tianjin /t͡sai²¹/
Jinan /ʈ͡ʂɛ²¹³/
Qingdao /ʈ͡ʂɛ²¹³/
Zhengzhou /ʈ͡ʂai²⁴/
Xi'an /t͡sai²¹/
Xining /t͡sɛ⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /ʈ͡ʂɛ⁴⁴/
Lanzhou /ʈ͡ʂɛ³¹/
Ürümqi /t͡sai⁴⁴/
Wuhan /t͡sai⁵⁵/
Chengdu /t͡sai⁵⁵/
Guiyang /t͡sai⁵⁵/
Kunming /ʈ͡ʂæ⁴⁴/
Nanjing /ʈ͡ʂae³¹/
Hefei /ʈ͡ʂe̞²¹/
Jin Taiyuan /t͡sai¹¹/
Pingyao /t͡sæ¹³/
Hohhot /t͡sɛ³¹/
Wu Shanghai /t͡se⁵³/
Suzhou /t͡sɑ⁵⁵/
Hangzhou /t͡se̞³³/
Wenzhou /t͡sa³³/
Hui Shexian /t͡sa³¹/
Tunxi /t͡sa¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /t͡sai³³/
Xiangtan /t͡sai³³/
Gan Nanchang /t͡sai⁴²/
Hakka Meixian /t͡sai⁴⁴/
Taoyuan /t͡sɑi²⁴/
Cantonese Guangzhou /t͡sai⁵³/
Nanning /t͡sai⁵⁵/
Hong Kong /t͡sai⁵⁵/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /t͡sai⁵⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /t͡sɛ⁴⁴/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /t͡sai⁵⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /t͡se³³/
Haikou (Min Nan) /t͡sai²³/
/t͡sɛ²³/
Rime
Character 齋
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 莊 (18)
Final (韻) 皆 (33)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) II
Fanqie 側皆切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /t͡ʃˠɛi/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ʈ͡ʂᵚæi/
Shao
Rongfen		 /t͡ʃɐi/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ʈ͡ʂəɨj/
Li
Rong		 /t͡ʃɛi/
Wang
Li		 /t͡ʃɐi/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ʈ͡ʂăi/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 zhāi
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 齋
Reading # 1/1
No. 10031
Phonetic
component		 齊
Rime
group		 脂
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 齋
Old
Chinese		 /*ʔsriːl/

Definitions

齋

  1. a vegetarian diet; or, the diet of monks
    吃齋 / 吃斋  ―  chīzhāi  ―  to abstain from eating meat
    齋月 / 斋月  ―  zhāiyuè  ―  Ramadan

Synonyms

  • (a vegetarian diet): 素食 (sùshí)

Japanese

Kanji

齋

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

齋 • ‎(jae)
Eumhun:

  • Sound (hangeul): 재 (revised: jae, McCune-Reischauer: chae, Yale: cay)
  • Name (hangeul): 엄숙할 재, 집 재, 상복 자, 재계할 재, 공부방 재()
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Vietnamese

Han character

齋 (trai, trơi, chay, chây)

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References

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