Taiwan Mandarin

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齋戒

zhāi jiè·ㄓㄞㄐㄧㄝˋ

“ritual purification before ceremonies or rites: bathing, abstaining from alcohol, meat, and sexual relations; Buddhist fasting observance”

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To fast or abstain from meat and alcohol; a vegetarian diet; a study or room; to give alms to monks; a shop's name.

jiè·ㄐㄧㄝˋ

To guard against or refrain from; to warn or admonish; to give up or stop doing something; Buddhist monastic discipline; a ring.

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