鐘 means “bell”

かね · kane

Also: gong, chimes

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)

かね

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

ショウ

Taught in secondary school · 20 strokes

The story

Metal (金) that weighs heavily (重) in childhood (童) memory: temple 鐘 ring 108 times on New Year's Eve (除夜の鐘), once for each worldly desire. That deep, resonant tone carries across mountains, marking the passage from old year to new.

Used in 鐘楼 (shourou, bell tower) and 除夜の鐘 (joya no kane, New Year's bell)

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Readings from KANJIDIC2, © EDRDG, CC BY-SA.