針 — needle, pin, staple

はり針 needle

Grade 6 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 10 strokes

U+91DD Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #505 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #292 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

needle
pin
staple
stinger

word

はり hari Kun'yomi Kun'yomi (訓読み) — the native Japanese reading of this kanji. Used when the kanji appears alone or with okurigana (trailing hiragana).

針(はり) hari needle

しん shin On'yomi On'yomi (音読み) — the Sino-Japanese reading, derived from Chinese pronunciation. Most commonly used in compound words (jukugo).

方(ほう) 針(しん) houshin policy 指(し) 針(しん) shishin guideline

Appears in idioms

針小棒大四字熟語

needle, little, rod, big

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

おかね金 gold #167

じゅう十 ten #24

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Kangxi Radical The Kangxi radicals are a set of 214 character components standardized in the 1716 Kangxi Dictionary. Every kanji is classified under one radical, used for dictionary lookup and character organization.

#167 金 metal