筋

Meanings

1. Noun

   muscle; tendon; sinew

2. Noun

   vein; artery

3. Noun

   fiber; fibre; string

4. Noun

   line; stripe; streak

5. Noun

   reason; logic

6. Noun

   plot; storyline

7. Noun

   lineage; descent

8. Noun

   school (e.g. of scholarship or arts)

9. Noun

   aptitude; talent

10. Noun

    source (of information, etc.); circle; channel

11. Noun

    well-informed person (in a transaction)

12. Noun

    effective move; logical move; suji; tesuji

13. Noun

    ninth vertical line

14. Noun

    seam on a helmet

15. Noun

    gristly fish paste (made of muscle, tendons, skin, etc.)

16. Noun

    social position; status

17. Noun · No-adjective

    on (a river, road, etc.); along

18. Suffix · Counter

    counter for long thin things; counter for roads or blocks when giving directions

19. Suffix

    street (in Osaka)

20. Suffix · Counter

    (Edo period) counter for hundreds of mon (obsolete unit of currency)

In Spanish

1. fibra; hilo; músculo

Kanji in this word

• 筋

Example sentences

• その小説しょうせつの筋すじはわからない。

  I don't understand this novel's plot.

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• 私は去年、それを別の筋から聞いた。

  I heard about it from another source last year.

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