Memory phrase for the character: 針

針

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Meaning

needle, pin, pointer

Pronunciation

SHIN
hari

Explanation

 Left: metal, gold 金 (Covered in the ground 土 are 2 gold nuggets 丷), right: ten 十

Mnemonic
 
It is made of metal and pointed like the number ten (= 十): A needle!

Radicals

金 gold, metalThis radical is always on the left side of a character.
十 ten, 10Two crossed arms (with five fingers each) means ten.




 Vocabulary

秒針 びょうしん  second hand (of clock)
方針 ほうしん  objective, plan, policy
針 はり  needle, fish hook, pointer, hand (e.g. clock)
針路 しんろ  course, direction, compass bearing
針金 はりがね  wire

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