| 大 | dà zhāi | to fast / to abstain from food | 
| 大 | dà | big; large; great / older (than another person) / eldest (as in 大姐) / greatly; freely; fully / (dialect) father / (dialect) uncle (father's brother) | 
| 大 | dài | see 大夫 | 
| 斋 | zhāi | old variant of 斋 | 
| 斋 | zhāi | to fast or abstain from meat, wine etc / vegetarian diet / study room / building / to give alms (to a monk) |