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
- —斎戒沐浴purification; washing
- —精進潔斎purifying oneself (religiously) by abstaining from eating meat
- —聊斎志異Strange stories from a Chinese studio (by Pu Songling)
- —三歌斎経Triodion; Lenten Triodion
- —神宮奉斎会Ise Shrine Offering Association (secular organization formed from Jingu-kyo in 1899; dissolved in 1946)
- —斎戒もく浴purification; washing
- —これに懲りよ道斎坊take it as a lesson learned; learn from this (mistake)
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