针

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

针 = 十 + 钅 : 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.

针

鍼

zhe̅n = zh + (e)n1

variant of 針|针[zhen1], needle

针 character breakdown

针
- 十
  - 一
  - 丨
- 钅

十

shí = sh + Ø2

ten / 10

十 = 一 + 丨 : 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).

钅

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

绵

綿

mián

里

裡

lǐ

藏

cáng

针

針

zhe̅n

lit. a needle concealed in silk floss (idiom) / fig. ruthless character behind a gentle appearance / a wolf in sheep's clothing / an iron fist in a velvet glove

Sentences with 针

针 currently does not appear in any sentence.