食齋

Chinese

		eat; food; to feed eat; food; to feed; animal feed	a fast; studio
trad. (食齋)		食	齋
simp. (食斋)		食	斋

Pronunciation

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sik⁶ zaai¹
• Hakka

  (Sixian, PFS): sṳ̍t-châi

  (Hailu, HRS): shid^ˋ zai^ˋ

  (Meixian, Guangdong): sed⁶ zai¹

• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): sia² zai¹
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): chia̍h-che

  (Teochew, Peng'im): ziah⁸ zê¹

  (Leizhou, Leizhou Pinyin): jia⁶ ze¹

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: sik⁶ zaai¹
    • Yale: sihk jāai
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sik⁹ dzaai¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: xig⁶ zai¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɪk̚² t͡saːi̯⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: sṳ̍t-châi
    • Hakka Romanization System: siid zai^ˊ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: sid⁶ zai¹
    • Sinological IPA: /sɨt̚⁵ t͡sai̯²⁴/
  • (Hailu, incl. Zhudong)
    • Hakka Romanization System: shid^ˋ zai^ˋ
    • Sinological IPA: /ʃit² t͡sai⁵³/
  • (Meixian)
    • Guangdong: sed⁶ zai¹
    • Sinological IPA: /sət̚⁵ t͡saɪ⁴⁴/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: sia² zai¹ [Phonetic: sia⁵ zai¹]
    • Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: sia̍h-cai
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɬia¹³⁻²¹ t͡sai⁵³³/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: sia² zai¹ [Phonetic: sia⁵ lai¹]
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɬia¹³⁻²¹ ^(t͡s-)lai⁵³³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Penang, Singapore)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chia̍h-che
    • Tâi-lô: tsia̍h-tse
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ciaqzef
    • IPA (Penang): /t͡sia(ʔ)⁴⁻³ t͡se³³/
    • IPA (Singapore): /t͡sia(ʔ)⁴³⁻²¹ t͡se⁴⁴/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: ziah⁸ zê¹
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tsia̍h tse
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡siaʔ⁴⁻² t͡se³³/
  • (Leizhou)
    • Leizhou Pinyin: jia⁶ ze¹
    • Sinological IPA: /t͡sia³³ t͡sɛ³⁵/

Verb

食齋

1. (Cantonese, Hakka, Malaysian and Singapore Hokkien, Leizhou Min, Teochew, Puxian Min) to live on a vegetarian diet; to be a vegetarian

Synonyms

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		吃素, 吃齋, 茹素
Northeastern Mandarin	Taiwan	吃素
	Singapore	吃素
Central Plains Mandarin	Xi'an	吃素
Southwestern Mandarin	Wuhan	吃素, 吃齋
Jianghuai Mandarin	Nanjing	吃齋
Cantonese	Guangzhou	食齋
	Hong Kong	食齋, 食素
	Singapore (Guangfu)	食齋
Hakka	Meixian	食齋, 食素
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	食齋
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	食齋
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	食齋
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	食齋
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	食齋
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	食菜
Jin	Taiyuan	吃素
Northern Min	Jian'ou	饁齋
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	食菜
Southern Min	Xiamen	食菜
	Quanzhou	食菜
	Jinjiang	食菜
	Zhangzhou	食菜
	Taipei	食菜
	New Taipei (Sanxia)	食菜
	Kaohsiung	食菜
	Yilan	食素, 食菜
	Changhua (Lukang)	食菜
	Taichung	食菜
	Tainan	食素, 食菜
	Hsinchu	食菜, 食素
	Kinmen	食菜
	Penghu (Magong)	食菜
	Penang (Hokkien)	食菜, 食齋
	Singapore (Hokkien)	食齋
	Manila (Hokkien)	食菜
	Jieyang	食齋
	Leizhou	食齋, 食澈
	Haikou	食齋
Wu	Wenzhou	吃素
Xiang	Loudi	吃齋

Dialectal synonyms of 吃素 (“to be a vegetarian; to eat vegetarian food”) [map]

Antonyms

• 吃葷／吃荤 (chīhūn)
• 茹葷／茹荤 (rúhūn)
• (Hokkien) 食臊