漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People
針: needle, pin
Also: staple, stinger
JLPT N210 strokesGrade 6Your ink: 白 Not met
金 carries the meaning · 十 gives the sound
10 strokes
Two readings, and the words that use each
シンshin · on'yomi · in compounds
- 針葉樹林しんようじゅりんconifer, needle-leaved tree
- 秒針びょうしんsecond hand
- 長針ちょうしんlong hand
- 短針たんしんhour hand
- 指針ししんpointer, guiding principle
- 方針ほうしんobjective, plan, policy
- 検針けんしんinspection of a meter
- 羅針盤らしんばん(mariner's) compass
- 避雷針ひらいしんlightning rod
はりhari · kun'yomi · on its own
- 針はりneedle, fish hook, pointer, hand
- 針金はりがねwire
Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Phono-semantic compound (形聲)金 metal, as 釒 (meaning) + 十 (sound)
Source: Wiktionary, 針 (rev. 92645309), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Dig deep for treasure! This radical represents the metals that form the backbone of our technology and the "gold" that has served as a global standard of value for centuries.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
The 十 family reads ジュウ (juu); 針 is read シン.
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side針 needle · 十
vs釜 kettle · 父In ChineseSimplified 针 · traditional, as in Japanese · zhēn
Japan keeps the traditional form 針; mainland China simplifies it to 针.
- Simplified
- 针 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 針 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin zhēn most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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