Kanji Detail for 箴 - "needle, acupuncture needle, admonish"

箴

Non-Jōyō Kanji

Meaning
箴 means "needle, acupuncture needle, admonish."
1. Needle - A sewing needle; a bamboo needle.
2. Acupuncture needle - A needle used for medical treatment.
3. Admonish - To warn; a warning.
Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:

KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

warning; counsel; presept; needle

Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

needle, probe; warn, admonish

CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

to warn; to admonish; variant of 針|针[zhen1]

Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

needle, probe; to admonish, to warn

XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

A needle for sewing clothes. Now used interchangeably with 鍼 and 針. | To admonish. Such as 箴諫. Also a type of literary form. Such as Zhang Hua's "Admonitions of the Court Ladies" and Cheng Yi's "Four Admonitions on Seeing, Hearing, Speaking, and Moving."
Onyomi

shin(しん)
Kunyomi

hari(はり)

imashi.meru(いましめる)
Strokes

15 strokes
Radical

竹 (take・takekammuri)
Related Keywords
needle sewing bamboo acupuncture medical treatment admonish warn warning