needle / pin / injection / stitch / CL:根[gen1],支[zhi1]

= + : James II of England (zh) found a huge cross made from a bone and a flute (十) with a golden harpoon (钅) sticking in the bone in front of the encampment ((e)n1). He wants to find out where it came from, so he uses a needle (针) to draw bone marrow from the bone to analyze its DNA, and it turns out that it once belonged to a white whale.
variant of 針|针[zhen1], needle

针 character breakdown

ten / 10

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a holy cross. Sherlock Holmes (sh-) is investigating a very strange thing he found in the kitchen of the space station (-2): A big pyramid made of ten (十) crosses (十), which are in turn made out of flutes (一) and dinosaur bones (丨).
Character component without intrinsic meaning

Mnemonic symbol: a golden harpoon.

Characters with 针 as component

针 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 针

to give or have an injection
policy / guidelines / CL:個|个[ge4]
pointer on a gauge / clock hand / cursor / (computing) pointer
hand of a clock / hour hand
to faint during acupuncture or injection
to inject poison
remonstrance / admonition
acupuncture needle
needle / hypodermic needle
see 注射針|注射针[zhu4 she4 zhen1]
see 大海撈針|大海捞针[da4 hai3 lao1 zhen1]
(bird species of China) silver-backed needletail (Hirundapus cochinchinensis)
to leave an inserted needle in place for a period of time (acupuncture)
(bird species of China) white-throated needletail (Hirundapus caudacutus)

Sentences with 针

针 currently does not appear in any sentence.