鍼

See also 针

Translingual

Han character

鍼 (radical 167 金+9, 17 strokes, cangjie input 金戈竹口 (CIHR), four-corner 8315₀)

1. needle, pin, tack
2. prick
3. inject

References

• KangXi: page 1315, character 27
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 40667
• Dae Jaweon: page 1815, character 33
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 4229, character 2
• Unihan data for U+937C

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Cantonese

Hanzi

鍼 (Yale jam1)

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Japanese

Kanji

鍼

Readings

• On: しん (shin)
• Kun: はり (hari), さす (sasu)

Compounds

• 鍼治療 (しんちりょう, shin chiryō): acupuncture

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Korean

Hanja

鍼 (hangeul 침, 감, revised chim, gam, McCune-Reischauer ch'im, kam, Yale chim, kam)

1. (침 침): needle (used in acupuncture).

Synonyms

• 針 (침, chim) needle (used in sewing, etc., i.e., 바늘).

Compounds

• 鍼術 (침술, chimsul) acupuncture

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Mandarin

Hanzi

鍼 (pinyin zhēn (zhen1), Wade-Giles chen¹)