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針

針

See also: 针

Translingual

Han character

針 (radical 167 金+2, 10 strokes, cangjie input 金十 (CJ), four-corner 84100, composition ⿰釒十)

References

  • KangXi: page 1296, character 9
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 40165
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1799, character 12
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 4168, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+91DD

Chinese

trad. 針
simp. 针
alt. forms 鍼

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (十) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
針 *kjum, *kjums
汁 *kjub
卙 *kʰljub
十 *ɡjub
什 *ɡjub

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *kjum, *kjums) : semantic 釒 ‎(“metal”) + phonetic 十 ‎(OC *ɡjub).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 針 針
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 章 (23) 章 (23)
Final (韻) 侵 (139) 侵 (139)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) III III
Fanqie 職深切 之任切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /t͡ɕiɪm/ /t͡ɕiɪmH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /t͡ɕim/ /t͡ɕimH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /t͡ɕjem/ /t͡ɕjemH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /cim/ /cimH/
Li
Rong		 /t͡ɕiəm/ /t͡ɕiəmH/
Wang
Li		 /t͡ɕĭĕm/ /t͡ɕĭĕmH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /t͡ɕi̯əm/ /t͡ɕi̯əmH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 zhēn zhèn
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 針
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 zhēn
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ tsyim ›
Old
Chinese		 /*t.[k]əm/
English needle

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 針 針
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 11448 11449
Phonetic
component		 十 十
Rime
group		 侵 侵
Rime
subdivision		 3 3
Corresponding
MC rime		 斟 枕
Old
Chinese		 /*kjum/ /*kjums/
Notes 見淮南子，說文作鍼

Definitions

針

  1. needle
  2. needle-like object; pin; brooch; hand (of a clock or watch); tack
  3. injection
  4. stitch
  5. acupuncture
  6. to poke
  7. (Cantonese) spy; informer   (Classifier: 條／条)
  8. Classifier for the number of injections.
  9. Classifier for the number of stitches.

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

針

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

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Readings

Etymology

Kanji in this term
針
はり
Grade: 6
kun'yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

針 ‎(hiragana はり, romaji hari)

  1. pin, needle
  2. hand (of a clock or watch)
    時計 (とけい)の針 (はり)は３時 (さんじ)を指 (さ)しています。
    Tokei no hari wa san-ji o sashiteimasu.
    The clock's hand is pointing to 3 o'clock.
  3. thorn
  4. staple (of a stapler)
    • 平沢唯 (CV: 豊崎愛生), 秋山澪 (CV: 日笠陽子) (lyrics 稲葉エミ), 「わたしの恋はホッチキス」
      はじまりだけは　軽 (かる)いノリで　しらないうちに　あつくなって　もう針 (はり)がなんだか通 (とお)らない
      hajimari dake wa karui nori de shiranai uchi ni atsukunatte mō hari ga nandaka tōranai
      At first I started lightly, but before I knew it, it got so thick the staples won't go through anymore
  5. (fishing) hook
Derived terms

References

  1. ↑ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
  2. ↑ 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3

Korean

Hanja

針 • ‎(chim) (hangeul 침, revised chim, McCune-Reischauer ch'im, Yale chim)

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Okinawan

Kanji

針 ‎(hiragana はーい, romaji hāi)

Etymology

Cognate with mainland Japanese 針 ‎(hari).

Alternative forms

Noun

針 ‎(hiragana はーい, romaji hāi)

  1. needle

Vietnamese

Han character

針 (châm, chăm, chảm, găm, kim, trâm)

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