| 大斋期 |
dà zhāi qī |
Lent (Christian period of forty days before Easter) |
| 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 |
| 大斋 |
dà zhāi |
to fast / to abstain from food |
| 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) |
| 斋期 |
zhāi qī |
fasting days / a fast |
| 期 |
qī |
variant of 期 / period / cycle |
| 期 |
qī |
a period of time / phase / stage / classifier for issues of a periodical, courses of study / time / term / period / to hope / Taiwan pr. [qi2] |