zhēn

needle

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
金 meaning component

  Meaning component

jīn

  

metal

十 sound component

  Sound component

shí

  

ten

Definitions

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zhēn

needle; pin; tack; acupuncture; injection; stitch; CL:[gēn],[zhī]

Most common words with 針
Freq.
Word
Meaning

针对

to target

pin

方针

policy

针对性

focus

打针

to give or have an injection

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*t.[k]əm

tsyim

zhēn

needle


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 27.7431% of movies

1241st most common character in movies

1116th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Simplified

Unicode

U+91DD


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