磬
qìng

stone chimes

磬 qìng
chime stone
an ancient percussion instrument made of L-shaped pieces of jade, stone, or metal hung from a frame and struck with a mallet
inverted bell
a bowl-shaped percussion instrument made of brass or copper, used in Buddhist or Taoist ceremonies to signal the start or end of a ritual

Cross-References

Has variant

Frequency
Character
Written text
5,327th most common 0.692 per million
Word
Written text
0.570 per million

Details
Strokes
16
Unicode
U+78EC

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingBCC Corpus (BLCU)