すじ

筋

Common word

  1. noun (common) (futsuumeishi)

    muscle, tendon, sinew

  2. noun (common) (futsuumeishi)

    vein, artery

  3. noun (common) (futsuumeishi)

    fiber, fibre, string

  4. noun (common) (futsuumeishi)

    line, stripe, streak

  5. noun (common) (futsuumeishi)

    reason, logic

    • 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.

  6. noun (common) (futsuumeishi)

    plot, storyline

    • その小説の筋はわからない。
      I don't understand this novel's plot.

  7. noun (common) (futsuumeishi)

    lineage, descent

  8. noun (common) (futsuumeishi)

    school (e.g. of scholarship or arts)

  9. noun (common) (futsuumeishi)

    aptitude, talent

  10. noun (common) (futsuumeishi)

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

    • 私は去年、それを別の筋から聞いた。
      I heard about it from another source last year.

  11. noun (common) (futsuumeishi)

    well-informed person (in a transaction)

  12. noun (common) (futsuumeishi)

    logical move (in go, shogi, etc.)

  13. noun (common) (futsuumeishi)

    ninth vertical line

  14. noun (common) (futsuumeishi)

    seam on a helmet

  15. noun (common) (futsuumeishi)

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

  16. noun (common) (futsuumeishi)

    social position, status
    archaic

  17. noun, used as a suffix, noun (common) (futsuumeishi), nouns which may take the genitive case particle 'no'

    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)
    archaic