Memory phrase for the Kanji: 斋


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Meaning

study room, building, vegetarian, to give alms

Pronunciation

zhāi

Explanation

Top: text, language (image of a folding table, on which a text is written), bottom: beard (closed mouth with a beard )

Mnemonic

Immersed in a book, the beard grows in the study room.

Radicals

script, culture
andImage of a closed mouth with a beard .
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Vocabulary

 斋祭  zhāi jì  to offer sacrifices (to gods or ancestors) whilst abstaining from meat, wine etc
 斋藤  Zhāi téng  Saito or Saitoh, Japanese surname
 书斋  shū zhāi  study (room)
 斋饭  zhāi fàn  food given to Buddhist monks as alms
 斋饭  zhāi fàn  


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