針 means needle, hand (of a clock) and is a JLPT N2 kanji. It has 10 strokes and uses the gold / metal radical (金).
Stroke order · 10 strokes
On'yomi (音読み)
シン
Kun'yomi (訓読み)
はり
Radical
金 · gold / metal
Strokes
10
How to remember 針
A thin metal (金) object with a pointed tip, made of "ten" (十) strokes — a needle. 時計の針 (clock hand), 方針 (policy) — literally "the needle pointing the direction."