At the ancient ritual a great bell, 镛, sounded together with the chimes.
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history
镛 is not used in modern Chinese; it named a large bronze ritual bell of antiquity, often paired with the stone chime 磬. It joins the metal radical 钅 with 庸 for the sound, the same phonetic seen in 墉 and 慵.
register
Classical only — found in old ritual and music texts, not in modern speech, where a bell is 钟.
