Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- zhāi
English
- vegetarian diet
- to fast or abstain from meat, wine etc
- (adjective) 1. Simply; 2. Only (because of less interests, activities, etc.)
- study
- vegetarian diet
- to fast, abstain
- study room
- building
- to give alms (to a monk)
- purely; solely; only; just
- vegetarian food, especially when eaten for religious purposes
- small study room or studio
- pure; dull; boring
- traditional school
粵語
- 淨係；冇其他
- 除咗淡菜之外，只係食植物，而且唔食五葷（大蒜、小蒜、興渠、慈葱、茖葱）。同食素嘅分別係，食齋通常有宗教目的，例如為咗積福、還願、免殺戳。（量詞：碟）
- 書房或者畫室；用嚟藏書、睇書、藏畫或者作畫嘅地方
- 淨係有某個元素，純粹，以至有啲單調、寡、悶
- 傳統學校
As a component in
Variants
Words containing 齋
- 開齋hoi1 zaai1
to stop following a vegetarian diet
- 齋戒zaai1 gaai3
to observe a religious fast; to abstain from food or certain activities before a ritual
- 話齋waa6 zaai1
(slang) as one has said
- 打齋daa2 zaai1
to beg for (vegetarian) food
- 書齋syu1 zaai1
study (room)
- 齋菜zaai1 coi3
vegetarian dishes
- 食齋sik6 zaai1
to be a vegetarian
- 守齋sau2 zaai1
to fast
- 齋校zaai1 haau6
a single-sex school
- 齋啡zaai1 fe1
(noun) (of beverage) a coffee without milk and sugar: a black coffee
- 羅漢齋lo4 hon3 zaai1
stewed mixed vegetables
- 齋月zaai1 jyut6
Ramadan (Islam)
- 化齋faa3 zaai1
to beg for food (of monks)
- 齋教zaai1 gaau3
Zhaijiao sect of Buddhism
- 假齋gaa2 zaai1
vegetarian food with rich meat taste
- 齋飯zaai1 faan6
food given to Buddhist monks as alms
- 齋果zaai1 gwo2
(religious) offerings
- 埋齋maai4 zaai1
to finish a game; figuratively, to finish
- 粗齋cou1 zaai1
braised vegetables
- 捱齋ngaai4 zaai1
to be vegetarian due to lack of meat
- 齋噏zaai1 ngap1
empty talk; all talk and no action [colloquial]
- 齋姑zaai1 gu1
a 'vegetarian recluse', a woman who has gone through the Refuge rite of Buddhism without shaving off her hair
- 齋鹵味zaai1 lou5 mei2
vegetarian mock meats
- 齋滷味zaai1 lou5 mei2
vegeterian mock meat