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
Top 2800
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.
I heard about it from another source last year.