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

needle-leaved (tree)
to critique / to voice concerns about / ancient form of acupuncture using sharp stones as needles
pinhole camera (for espionage, voyeurism etc)
see 針尖對麥芒|针尖对麦芒[zhen1 jian1 dui4 mai4 mang2]
sharply opposed to each other, with neither prepared to give an inch (idiom)
(bird species of China) pin-tailed snipe (Gallinago stenura)
(bird species of China) pin-tailed green pigeon (Treron apicauda)
(bird species of China) northern pintail (Anas acuta)
needle felting (craft) / piece of felt used as a pincushion
staple (variant of 訂書針|订书针[ding4 shu1 zhen1])
day lily (Hemerocallis), used in Chinese medicine and cuisine
staple / also written 訂書針|订书针[ding4 shu1 zhen1]
acupuncture needle / hypodermic needle
to prick with a needle / to treat by acupuncture

Sentences with 针

针 currently does not appear in any sentence.