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針 = 金 + 十

針 is a Japanese kanji written with 10 strokes, listed here under the keyword “needle”. It is built from 金 (gold) and 十 (ten). In Remembering the Kanji by James W. Heisig it is frame 292.

Keyword
needle
RTK frame
292
Strokes
10
On'yomi (Sino-Japanese reading)
シン
Kun'yomi (native Japanese reading)
はり
Script
Japanese kanji
Also known as
игла
Same glyph as a traditional Chinese hanzi
針 needle

Decomposition

Primary decomposition

  1. 金 gold
  2. 十 ten

How to find 針 without knowing its reading

On KumiJi Glyph Explorer, open the parts search and type “gold” + “ten”. 針 is among the results, together with every other character containing the same shapes.

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