- 1. [n] muscle; tendon; sinew
- 2. [n] vein; artery
- 3. [n] fiber; fibre; string
- 4. [n] line; stripe; streak
- 5. [n] reason; logic
- 6. [n] plot; storyline
- 7. [n] lineage; descent
- 8. [n] school (e.g. of scholarship or arts)
- 9. [n] aptitude; talent
- 10. [n] source (of information, etc.); circle; channel
- 11. [n] well-informed person (in a transaction)
- 12. [n] {go, shogi} effective move; logical move; suji; tesuji
- 13. [n] {shogi} ninth vertical line
- 14. [n] seam on a helmet
- 15. [n] gristly fish paste (made of muscle, tendons, skin, etc.) (abbr)
- 16. [n] social position; status (arch)
- 17. [n-suf, n, adj-no] on (a river, road, etc.); along
- 18. [suf, ctr] counter for long thin things; counter for roads or blocks when giving directions
- 19. [suf] street (in Osaka)
- 20. [suf, ctr] (Edo period) counter for hundreds of mon (obsolete unit of currency) (arch)
Kanji in this word
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筋
muscle, sinew, tendon, fiber, plot, plan, descentOn: キン (kin)Kun: すじ (suji)
Example Sentences
きみが言っていることは筋があまりよく通っていない。
There isn't much logic in what you're saying.
その小説の筋はわからない。
I don't understand this novel's plot.
私は去年、それを別の筋から聞いた。
I heard about it from another source last year.