断だん食じき

だ

ん

じ

き

Common wordFreq.FrequencyTop 20,000

Meanings

1

noun, noun or participle which takes 'suru', intransitive verb

fasting; fast

Refers to voluntarily abstaining from food, often for religious, health, or protest reasons. Can be used as a noun or as a suru-verb (intransitive).

彼かれは宗しゅう教きょう的てきな理り由ゆうで断だん食じきをしている。
He is fasting for religious reasons.
健

けん

康こう

の

ため

に

、

週しゅう

に

一いち

度ど

断だん

食じき

する

人ひと

も

いる

。

Some people fast once a week for their health.

Kanji

断severance, decline, refuse
食eat, food

Similar words

絶ぜっ食しょく
絶食 also means fasting or abstaining from food, but it is more commonly used in medical contexts (e.g., before surgery) or for forced starvation, whereas 断食 often implies a voluntary, sometimes spiritual, fast.

Etymology

Compound of 断 (dan, 'to cut off') and 食 (jiki, 'eating'). The reading だんじき uses the kan'on reading for 断 and the goon reading for 食, a common mixed reading pattern in Sino-Japanese words.