针
zhēn HSK4

needle

针 針 zhēn
variant 鍼
needle noun
needle; pin; a small, thin tool used for sewing or knitting

我的手抖得太厉害，没法穿针了。

wǒ​de shǒu dǒu de tài lì​hài, méi fǎ chuān zhēn le.

My hands were shaking too much to thread the needle.

needle-like object noun
anything shaped like a needle, such as a clock hand, a compass needle, or a pine needle

从远处看，这些结构看起来像水晶针。

cóng yuǎn​chù kàn, zhè​xiē jié​gòu kàn​qi​lai xiàng shuǐ​jīng zhēn.

From a distance these structures look like crystal needles.

injection nounverb
medical injection; shot; the liquid medicine injected into the body
to stitch nounverb
(bound form) to sew; to stitch; to pierce with a needle
to treat with acupuncture noun
(bound form) to perform acupuncture or needle therapy
stitch noun
a single stitch in sewing or a surgical suture
classifier measure word
[a measure word for injections, acupuncture treatments, or surgical stitches]

当你进食最喜欢的食物时，你的大脑给你“注射了一针多巴胺”。

dāng nǐ jìn shí zuì xǐ​huan de shí​wù shí, nǐ de dà​nǎo gěi nǐ“ zhù​shè le yī zhēn duō​bā'àn”.

When you eat your favorite food, your brain gives you a hit of dopamine.

acupuncture needle
(bound form) needle used in traditional Chinese medicine to pierce acupuncture points
surname
a Chinese surname

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Frequency
Character
Written text
1,116th most common 131.2 per million
Movie subtitles
1,241st most common 66.6 per million appears in 28% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
28.3 per million appears in 9% of films
Written text
34.9 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 4
HSK 3.0
Level 4
Traditional
針
Strokes
7
Unicode
U+9488

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)