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Keyword
religious purification
  • purification
  • Buddhist food
  • room
  • worship
  • avoid
  • alike
Frequency
#1155
Strokes
11
Grade
8
JLPT (old)
N1
Heisig
1869
Readings
サイ100%
Mnemonic
The monk recites one written sentence, makes a slash left across his palm with a sharpened bamboo stick, and bleeds to demonstrate his religious purification before the altar.
Stroke order
Composed of
文written sentence丿slash left丨stick示demonstrate
Used in vocabulary
斎いわい
congratulation; congratulations; celebration; festival; congratulatory gift; present
Noun
斎さい場じょう
funeral hall; ceremony site
Noun
斎いわう
to celebrate; to congratulate; to observe (a festival); to present (a gift) in celebration; to drink in celebration; to wish for (a happy future, good fortune, etc.); to pray for
Godan verb
書しょ斎さい
study; library; den; home office; reading room
Noun
斎いみ
mourning; abstinence; taboo; religious purification; pure; holy
Noun
斎とき
meals exchanged by parishioners and priests
Noun
斎さい宮ぐう
unmarried imperial princess serving at the Ise Grand Shrine in place of the Emperor
Noun
斎いわい言ごと
congratulatory words; prayer for happiness
Noun
斎いみ日び
unlucky day (according to astrology); (previously a) death anniversary; purification and fast day
Noun
斎いむ
to avoid; to refrain from; to shun
Godan verb
斎ゆ屋や
public bathhouse; building with a bath (esp. in a shrine or temple)
Noun
斎さい主しゅ
master of religious ceremonies
Noun
潔けっ斎さい
religious abstinence; purification
Noun
斎さい戒かい
purification
Noun
斎さい院いん
imperial princess who served as a priestess at Ise
Noun