Kanji
斎
kanji character
purification
Buddhist food
room
worship
avoid
alike
斎 kanji-斎 purification, Buddhist food, room, worship, avoid, alike
斎
Meaning
purification Buddhist food room
Readings
Kun'yomi
- とき
- つつしむ
- ものいみ
- いむ
- いわう
- いつく
On'yomi
- さい じょう funeral hall
- しょ さい study
- さい かい purification
Practice Writing
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Common Words
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斎 congratulation, congratulations, celebration... -
斎 うto celebrate, to congratulate, to observe (a festival)... -
斎 場 funeral hall, ceremony site -
書 斎 study, library, den... -
斎 みmourning, abstinence, taboo... -
斎 むto avoid, to refrain from, to shun... -
斎 くto worship, to enshrine -
斎 日 fast day -
斎 戒 purification -
斎 垣 fence around a shrine (or other sacred area) -
斎 宮 unmarried imperial princess serving at the Ise Grand Shrine in place of the Emperor -
斎 主 master of religious ceremonies -
斎 服 priestly vestments, esp. white silk robes worn at festivals -
斎 部 Imbe clan (ancient Shinto priestly family) -
斎 屋 public bathhouse, building with a bath (esp. in a shrine or temple) -
斎 食 morning meal (for priests, monks, etc.)... -
斎 言 congratulatory words, prayer for happiness -
斎 行 carrying out (a religious festival or ceremony) -
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 -
斎 み垣 shrine fence -
潔 斎 religious abstinence, purification -
小 斎 abstinence (in Catholicism) -
大 斎 Great Lent, Great Fast -
揚 げ斎 last death anniversary for which there is a memorial service held (usu. the 32nd or 49th) -
羅 漢 斎 Buddha's delight (vegetarian dish) -
斎 戒 沐 浴 purification, washing -
斎 戒 もく浴 purification, washing -
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)