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

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
- (Meixian)
  - Guangdong: sed⁶ zai¹
  - Sinological IPA: /sət̚⁵ t͡saɪ⁴⁴/
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/

食齋

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

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		吃素, 吃齋, 茹素
Northeastern Mandarin	Taiwan	吃素
Central Plains Mandarin	Xi'an	吃素
Southwestern Mandarin	Wuhan	吃素, 吃齋
Jianghuai Mandarin	Nanjing	吃齋
Mandarin	Singapore	吃素
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