JōyōJLPT N1Pre-Level 2

Meaning

Kanji 斎

purification

purification, Buddhist food, room, worship, avoid, alike

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Readings

Kunyomi 訓読み
ときつつし.むものいみい.むいわ.ういつ.く
Onyomi 音読み
サイ
Nanori 名乗り
いつきさえひとしいつきよただよし

Variant: 斋 (Itaiji) , 㪰 (Itaiji) , 夈 (Itaiji) , 䬩 (Itaiji) • Old form: 齋 • Added to Jōyō: 1946

Jōyō
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JLPT
JLPT N1
Frequency
#1155
Strokes
11
Radical
Components
Kanji Kentei
Pre-Level 2
Similar Kanji

Related vocabulary

Showing 27 common entries

Showing 27 of 39 entries that include this kanji.

祝い

いわい

congratulatory gift

祝う

いわう

to present (a gift) in celebration

斎場

さいじょう

ceremony site

忌み

いみ

religious purification

忌み日

いみび

unlucky day (according to astrology)

忌む

いむ

to detest

とき

meals exchanged by parishioners and priests

斎く

いつく

to worship

斎み垣

いみがき

shrine fence

斎院

さいいん

imperial princess who served as a priestess at Ise

斎王

さいおう

unmarried imperial princess serving at the Ise Grand Shrine or the Kamo Shrine in place of the Emperor

斎戒

さいかい

purification

Example sentences

5 reference sentences

祭りの前に三日間戒して身を清めた。

Before the festival, he observed abstinence for three days to purify himself.

僧侶たちはその日、食をとった。

That day, the monks ate Buddhist food.

祖父は静かな書で本を読んでいる。

My grandfather is reading a book in his quiet study.

彼女は朝の礼に出てから仕事に向かった。

She attended the morning rite before heading to work.

大事な祭事の前なので、酒を飲まずに戒している。

Because an important ritual is near, he is observing abstinence and not drinking alcohol.