Kanji Detail for 磬 - "chime, bell, strangle, exhaust"

磬

Non-Jōyō Kanji

Meaning
磬 means "chime, bell, strangle, exhaust."
1. Chime - An ancient percussion instrument; a jade or stone piece hung in an inverted V-shape and struck.
2. Bell - A bowl-shaped Buddhist instrument struck during sutra recitation.
3. Strangle - To choke the neck.
4. Exhaust - To be depleted; to become empty.
Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:

KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

upside-V-shaped gong

Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

musical instrument; musical stone

CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

chime stones, ancient percussion instrument made of stone or jade pieces hung in a row and struck as a xylophone

Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

musical instrument; a kind of xylophone

XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

An instrument. Made of jade or stone. Shaped like a carpenter's square. Large ones are called 特磬. Small ones are called 編磬. Also, today the instrument used by monks, made of copper shaped like a bowl, struck to produce sound, is also called 磬.
Onyomi

kei(けい)
Kunyomi

muna.shii(むなしい)

tsu.kiru(つきる)

uchiishi
Strokes

16 strokes
Radical

石 (ishi・ishihen)
Related Keywords
chime percussion instrument jade stone piece hung inverted shape struck bell bowl shaped buddhist sutra