| 齋 | [ zhaī ] to fast or abstain from meat, wine etc, vegetarian diet, study room, building, to give alms (to a monk) |
| 齋堂 | [ zhaī táng ] dining hall in a Buddhist temple |
| 齋戒 | [ zhaī jiè ] to fast |
| 齋教 | [ zhaī ] Zhaijiao sect of Buddhism |
| 齋月 | [ zhaī yuè ] Ramadan (Islam) |
| 齋期 | [ zhaī qī ] fasting days, a fast |
| 齋果 | [ zhaī guǒ ] (religious) offerings |
| 齋祭 | [ zhaī jì ] to offer sacrifices (to gods or ancestors) whilst abstaining from meat, wine etc |
| 齋藤 | [ zhaī téng ] Saitō (Japanese surname) |
| 齋飯 | [ zhaī fàn ] food given to Buddhist monks as alms |
| ⇒ 化齋 | [ huà zhaī ] to beg for food (of monks) |
| ⇒ 吃齋 | [ chī zhaī ] to abstain from eating meat, to be a vegetarian |
| ⇒ 四旬齋 | [ sì xún zhaī ] Lent (Christian period of forty days before Easter) |
| ⇒ 大開齋 | [ dà kaī zhaī ] see 開齋節|开斋节[Kai1 zhai1 jie2] |
| ⇒ 大齋 | [ dà zhaī ] to fast, to abstain from food |
| ⇒ 大齋期 | [ dà zhaī qī ] Lent (Christian period of forty days before Easter) |
| ⇒ 大齋節 | [ dà zhaī jié ] great fast, Christian lent |
| ⇒ 守齋 | [ shoǔ zhaī ] to fast |
| ⇒ 封齋 | [ fēng zhaī ] fast (in several religions), Ramadan (Islam), see also 齋月|斋月[Zhai1 yue4] |
| ⇒ 封齋節 | [ fēng zhaī jié ] Lent |
| ⇒ 打齋 | [ dǎ zhaī ] to beg for (vegetarian) food |
| ⇒ 書齋 | [ shū zhaī ] study (room) |
| ⇒ 素齋 | [ sù zhaī ] vegetarian food |
| ⇒ 聊齋志異 | [ zhaī zhì yì ] Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio, Qing dynasty book of tales by 蒲松齡|蒲松龄[Pu2 Song1 ling2] |
| ⇒ 開齋 | [ kaī zhaī ] to stop following a vegetarian diet, to break a fast |
| ⇒ 開齋節 | [ kaī zhaī jié ] Eid al-Fitr or Feast of Breaking the Fast, celebrated on the last day of Ramadan |