Words

noun

1. muscle; tendon; sinew
2. vein; artery
3. fiber; fibre; string
4. line; stripe; streak
5. 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.

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6. plot; storyline

   その小説の筋はわからない。

   I don't understand this novel's plot.

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7. lineage; descent
8. school (e.g. of scholarship or arts)
9. aptitude; talent
10. 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.

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11. well-informed person (in a transaction)
12. effective move; logical move; suji; tesuji

    go (game); shogi

13. ninth vertical line

    shogi

14. seam on a helmet
15. gristly fish paste (made of muscle, tendons, skin, etc.)

    abbreviation

16. social position; status

    archaic

noun, used as a suffix, noun, nouns which may take the genitive case particle 'no'

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

suffix, counter

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

suffix

1. street (in Osaka)

suffix, counter

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

   archaic

noun

1. muscle