碑

Meaning

碑 centers on a stone marker that commemorates or records: a tombstone or a monument. Both meanings share the idea of a lasting stone inscription.

• 碑いしぶみ
  N1

  stone monument bearing an inscription (esp. memorial for future generations); stele; stela

• 石碑せきひ

  stone monument

• 碑文ひぶん

  inscription; epitaph; epigraph

• 墓碑ぼひ

  gravestone; tombstone

• 歌碑かひ

  monument (stele, gravestone, etc.) engraved with a waka

• 墓碑銘ぼひめい

  epitaph; inscription on a tombstone

• 記念碑きねんひ

  commemorative plaque (usu. on a stone); stone monument (bearing an inscription)

• 詩碑しひ

  monument (stele, gravestone, etc.) engraved with a poem

• 口碑こうひ

  oral tradition; legend; folklore

• 句碑くひ

  slab with a haiku cut on it

• 建碑けんぴ

  erection of a monument

• 忠魂碑ちゅうこんひ

  monument to the faithful who died in battle

• 慰霊碑いれいひ

  cenotaph; memorial monument

• 戦没者慰霊碑せんぼつしゃいれいひ

  war memorial

• 断碑だんぴ

  broken stone monument

• 碑文学ひぶんがく

  epigraphy

• 碑石ひせき

  stone monument

• 碑銘ひめい

  inscription; epitaph

• 碑陰ひいん

  back of a stone monument

• 表忠碑ひょうちゅうひ

  war-memorial monument

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