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.

針 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).
surname Jin / surname Kim (Korean) / Jurchen Jin dynasty (1115-1234)

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a bar of gold.

= + : In front of the encampment, Joan of Arc is on the lookout for smugglers. Indeed she catches the mean crocodile smuggling gold bars hidden in whole wheat breads.
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]

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a bar of gold.

= + : In front of the encampment, Joan of Arc is on the lookout for smugglers. Indeed she catches the mean crocodile smuggling gold bars hidden in whole wheat breads.

Characters with 針 as component

針 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 針

to target / to focus on / to be aimed at or against / in response to
fluid loaded into a syringe for a hypodermic injection
focus / direction / purpose / relevance
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
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)
staple (variant of 訂書針|订书针[ding4 shu1 zhen1])
needle used in embroidery or sewing / acupuncture needle / orange day-lily (Hemerocallis fulva)
orange day-lily (Hemerocallis fulva)
enoki mushroom (Flammulina velutipes, Japanese えのき茸 enokitake), used in cuisines of Japan, Korea and China, cultivated to be long, thin and white / abbr. to 金菇
day lily (Hemerocallis), used in Chinese medicine and cuisine

Sentences with 針

針 currently does not appear in any sentence.