筋すじ
Meanings
Noun
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
Adjective (の)
Noun
Suffix
17. on (a river, road, etc.); along
Counter
Suffix
18. counter for long thin things; counter for roads or blocks when giving directions
19. (Edo period) counter for hundreds of mon (obsolete unit of currency)
Kanji used
muscle
Pitch accent
す
じ
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Used in vocabulary (87 in total)
spine; line of the backbone; seam down the back (of clothing)
nape of the neck; back of the neck; scruff of the neck
one long straight object (e.g. strand of hair, beam of light, wisp of smoke); a single bloodline; earnest; resolute; (arch.) ordinary; (arch.) common
Examples (4 in total)
I heard this from a safe source.
I don't understand this novel's plot.
The action of the story takes place on an island.