| 大斋节 |
dà zhāi jié |
great fast / Christian lent |
| 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) |
| 节 |
jiē |
see 节骨眼 |
| 节 |
jié |
joint; node / (bound form) section; segment / solar term (one of the 24 divisions of the year in the traditional Chinese calendar) / seasonal festival / (bound form) to economize; to save / (bound form) moral integrity; chastity / classifier for segments: lessons, train wagons, biblical verses etc / knot (nautical miles per hour) |