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Kanji Detail for 齋 - "purification, reverence, chamber, vegetarian meal, serve"
齋
- Meaning
齋 means "purification, reverence, chamber, vegetarian meal, serve."
Purification - To abstain from food and certain activities to purify mind and body for religious rites.
Reverence - To be respectful; to be careful.
Chamber - A room for purification; a study.
Vegetarian meal - A simple meal; Buddhist cuisine.
Serve - To purify oneself and serve the gods (Japanese usage).
- Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:
KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary
Buddhist food; room; religious purification; worship; avoid; alike
Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters
vegetarian diet; study; to fast, abstain
CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary
to fast or abstain from meat, wine etc; vegetarian diet; study room; building; to give alms (to a monk)
Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data
to fast, to abstain; a vegetarian diet
XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary
To be unified. Meaning to unify mind and will. In ancient times, before sacrifice one would 齋. Meaning not drinking wine, not eating meat, staying in an outer room, and the like. Also called 齋戒 (purification). | An outer room is called 齋. In ancient times, it was a room for purification. Hence a study is called 書齋. | Vegetarian food is called 齋. As in the colloquial 喫齋 (eating vegetarian). | Monk's meal is called 齋. Feeding monks is also called 齋僧.
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