noun
sewing needle
A needle used for hand sewing or machine sewing. The reading ぬいはり is a rare alternative.
祖母は縫い針に糸を通すのが上手だ。
My grandmother is good at threading a sewing needle.
この縫い針は先が鋭くて布に通りやすい。
This sewing needle has a sharp point and goes through fabric easily.
Abbreviated kanji form; less common but still encountered.
Compound of 縫い (nui, 'sewing', the continuative form of 縫う nuu) and 針 (hari, 'needle'), with rendaku voicing of hari to bari.