Word · 単語
筋
Reading すじ
muscle
- 1 muscle, tendon, sinew
- 2 vein, artery
- 3 fiber, fibre, string
- 4 line, stripe, streak
- 5 reason, logic
- 6 plot, storyline
- 7 lineage, descent
- 8 school (e.g. of scholarship or arts)
- 9 aptitude, talent
- 10 source (of information, etc.), circle, channel
- 11 well-informed person (in a transaction)
- 12 logical move (in go, shogi, etc.)
- 13 ninth vertical line
- 14 seam on a helmet
- 15 gristly fish paste (made of muscle, tendons, skin, etc.)
- 16 social position, status
- 17 on (a river, road, etc.), along
- 18 counter for long thin things, counter for roads or blocks when giving directions
- 19 street (in Osaka)
- 20 (Edo period) counter for hundreds of mon (obsolete unit of currency)
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Mastered counts as known everywhere (frontier, map, extension) but never appears in the quiz again. New wipes the review history for this item.
例文 · examples
その小説の筋はわからない。
I don't understand this novel's plot.
sense 6 · 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.
sense 10 · source (of information, etc.)
君の説明はもっともらしいが、筋がちっとも通ってない。
Your explanation sounds plausible, but it just doesn't hold water.
sense 5 · reason
私はそのニュースを確かな筋から得た。
I got the news from a reliable source.
sense 10 · source (of information, etc.)
物語の筋はある島を舞台に展開する。
The action of the story takes place on an island.
sense 6 · plot