stone monument; stone marker
A stone slab or pillar erected as a monument, memorial, or marker, often with an inscription.
公園の入り口に古い石碑が立っている。
An old stone monument stands at the entrance of the park.
The villagers erected a stone monument in the park.
この石碑には戦没者の名前が刻まれている。
The names of the war dead are carved on this stone monument.
The names of the war victims are inscribed on the stone monument.
A stone monument stands here, marking that a castle once stood on this site.
碑 is a shorter, more literary way to say the same thing as 石碑, often used in compound names of monuments.
石碑 is the native Japanese word for a stone monument or tombstone in general, while ステラ specifically refers to the archaeological stela of ancient civilizations.
墓石 is specifically a gravestone marking a grave, whereas 石碑 is a general stone monument that need not mark a grave.
group (chemistry) · (free) radical · counter for installed or mounted objects
Compound of 石 (stone) and 碑 (monument, marker). The reading is on'yomi.