U+658B "斋" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
斋
U+658B "斋" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily signifies "abstinence," "fasting," or "a vegetarian diet," often in a religious or spiritual context. It also refers to a "study" or "studio," particularly one used for meditation, writing, or scholarly pursuits, and appears in terms like "书斋" for a study room. In East Asian cultures, especially in Buddhism and Taoism, the character conveys the idea of purifying oneself through self discipline or temporary renunciation of certain foods or behaviors.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+658B |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| Block | CJK Unified Ideographs |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 斋 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 斋 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE6 0x96 0x8B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x658B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000658B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u658b |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 22366C |
| kCNS1986 | E-3140 |
| kCNS1992 | 3-3140 |
| kCangjie | YKMBL |
| kCantonese | zaai1 |
| kCihaiT | 611.504 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0835.020 |
| kDefinition | vegetarian diet; study |
| kEACC | 2D627E |
| kFennIndex | 9.10 |
| kFourCornerCode | 0022 |
| kGB0 | 5311 |
| kHanYu | 32170.070 |
| kIICore | AG |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0835.020 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 32170.070 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0477.050 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-552B |
| kIRG_HSource | H-8C7E |
| kIRG_JSource | JMJ-013046 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-4874 |
| kIRG_TSource | T3-3140 |
| kJapanese | サイ |
| kTGH | 2013:2029 |
| kKangXi | 0477.050 |
| kLau | 1276 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 7872 |
| kMandarin | zhāi |
| kMatthews | 115 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ013046 |
| kMorohashi | 13460 |
| kNelson | 2070 |
| kPhonetic | 56 1537 |
| kRSUnicode | 67.6 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+9F4B<kLau,kMatthews |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "斋" U+658B CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 281.02 |
| kSpecializedSemanticVariant | U+9F4A<kFenn |
| kTGHZ2013 | 463.150:zhāi |
| kTotalStrokes | 10 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "斋" U+658B CJK Unified Ideograph-# "齋" U+9F4B CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GH |
| kXHC1983 | 1449.070:zhāi |