The kanji 針: meaning, readings and stroke order

針

Meaning: needle, clock hand
On reading: シン shin
Kun reading: はり hari
Strokes: 10
Radical: 金 metal, gold
Level: Level 6 · grade 6

Stroke order

Meaning in other languages

Vietnamese: cây kim, kim (đồng hồ) (châm)
Japanese: はり。
Korean: 바늘 (침)
Chinese: 针

Readings, words and example sentences

シン shin · on reading

方ほう針しん
plan, policy
学校の 方ほう針しんが決まりました。
The school's plan has been decided.

はり hari · kun reading

針はり
needle
針はりに糸を通します。
I put the thread through the needle.

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Readings, radicals: Kanjium, KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); strokes: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); Korean, simplified forms: Unicode Unihan. Meanings, sentences: Dino Kids (CC0). See Licences.