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針
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.
針 character breakdown
ten / 10
surname Jin / surname Kim (Korean) / Jurchen Jin dynasty (1115-1234)
gold / chemical element Au / generic term for lustrous and ductile metals / money / golden / highly respected / one of the eight categories of ancient musical instruments 八音[ba1 yin1]
Characters with 針 as component
針
is not used as a component in another character.
Words with 針
lit. to fish a needle from the sea / to find a needle in a haystack (idiom)
lit. to draw blood on the first prick (idiom) / fig. to hit the nail on the head
lit. as if sitting on pins and needles (idiom) / fig. to be in an uncomfortable situation
If you work at it hard enough, you can grind an iron bar into a needle. / cf idiom 磨杵成針|磨杵成针, to grind an iron bar down to a fine needle (idiom); fig. to persevere in a difficult task / to study diligently
the eight-character slogan for the economic policy proposed by 李富春[Li3 Fu4 chun1] in 1961: 調整、鞏固、充實、提高|调整、巩固、充实、提高 "adjust, consolidate, enrich and improve" / a policy expressed as an eight-character slogan
another name for 金箍棒[jin1 gu1 bang4] / (fig.) stabilizing force
a pull-through to thread a needle / fig. to act as go-between
a policy expressed as an eight-character slogan / (esp.) the eight-character slogan for the economic policy proposed by 李富春[Li3 Fu4 chun1] in 1961: 調整、鞏固、充實、提高|调整、巩固、充实、提高 "adjust, consolidate, enrich and improve"
Sentences with 針
針 currently does not appear in any sentence.