Kanji1 / 11
斎 kanji
purification, Buddhist food, room, worship, avoid, alike
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N3 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 11
- School grade
- Secondary school
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サイ
Kun readings
ときつつしむものいみいむいわういつく
Variant forms
齋Words with 斎
LevelWord & meaningActions
- N3書斎Popularstudy; library; den; home office; reading room
- —斎場Popularfuneral hall; ceremony site
- —斎戒purification
- —斎宮unmarried imperial princess serving at the Ise Grand Shrine in place of the Emperor
- —斎主master of religious ceremonies
- —斎日fast day
- —斎服priestly vestments, esp. white silk robes worn at festivals
- —潔斎religious abstinence; purification
- —小斎abstinence (in Catholicism)
- —斎食morning meal (for priests, monks, etc.); food offering at a Buddhist ceremony
- —斎行carrying out (a religious festival or ceremony)
- —大斎Great Lent; Great Fast
- —斎堂dining hall at a Zen temple or monastery; refectory
- —斎院imperial princess who served as a priestess at Ise
- —斎王unmarried imperial princess serving at the Ise Grand Shrine or the Kamo Shrine in place of the Emperor
- —御斎会imperial event at which high monks recited the Golden Light Sutra to pray for national security and good harvests (held annually at the palace from the 8th to the 14th of the first lunar month, between the Nara and Muromachi periods)
- —羅漢斎Buddha's delight (vegetarian dish)
- —三斎流Sansai school of tea ceremony
- —書斎人person who spends a lot of time in their study; armchair expert
- —書斎劇closet drama; lesedrama
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