Word Meaning 潔斎

けっさい kessai

潔斎 is read as けっさい (kessai) and means religious abstinence.

Meaning

English

  1. religious abstinence
  2. purification

Reading

Kana

けっさい

Romaji

kessai

Stroke Sequence

2 Characters • 26 Total Strokes

Study Signals and Categories

JLPT N1 Jōyō Upper Grade Kanken 準2級 Rank 136393 Priority V

Related Vocabulary

Max. 12

精進潔斎

しょうじんけっさい

purifying oneself (religiously) by abstaining from eating meat

潔白

けっぱく

innocence

潔い

いさぎよい

unspoiled (scenery, etc.)

潔癖

けっぺき

fastidiousness

書斎

しょさい

study

大斎

たいさい

Great Lent

小斎

しょうさい

abstinence (in Catholicism)

清潔

せいけつ

clean

不潔

ふけつ

indecent

高潔

こうけつ

noble

斎場

さいじょう

ceremony site

簡潔

かんけつ

concise