針

to hurt someone's feelings

memorial service for old needles

black locust; robinia pseudoacacia

Gasterosteus microcephalus (species of stickleback)

bed of nails; bed of thorns; bed of needles

Idiomatic expression

to have a narrow view of things; to peek at the sky through the eye of a needle

white-throated needletail (species of swift, Hirundapus caudacutus)

elver (type of eel)

short-beaked echidna (Tachyglossidae spp.); spiny anteater

spiny amaranth (Amaranthus spinosus); spiny pigweed; prickly amaranth; thorny amaranth

goethite

to swerve from the course

stinging words; biting remarks

pinhole camera

seam; stitch

eye of a needle

Idiomatic expression

exaggeration; making a mountain out of a molehill

Word usually written using kana alone

golden cuttlefish (Sepia esculenta)

Madokai's cuttlefish (Sepia madokai)

tiger-tail spruce (Picea polita)

Computing

wire frame representation

Buddhism

hell's mountain of needles

castor aralia (Kalopanax septemlobus); prickly castor oil tree

pale cabbage (Brassica tournefortii); Asian mustard

Idiomatic expression

to have a narrow view of things; to peek at the sky through the eye of a needle

wiremaking; wiredrawing