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

acupuncture and moxibustion / to give or have acupuncture and moxibustion
knitting / knitted garment
(medicine) sty
eye of a needle / pinprick / pinhole
needle and thread / needlework
needle-leaved (tree)
to critique / to voice concerns about / ancient form of acupuncture using sharp stones as needles
wicker sewing basket (dialect)
erhua variant of 針箍|针箍[zhen1 gu1]
(bird species of China) northern pintail (Anas acuta)
needle felting (craft) / piece of felt used as a pincushion
needlework / working for a living as a needleworker

Sentences with 針

針 currently does not appear in any sentence.