Japanese DictionaryDefinition of 筋
- (n) muscle; tendon; sinew
- vein; artery
- fiber; fibre; string
- line; stripe; streak
- reason; logic
- plot; storyline
- lineage; descent
- school (e.g. of scholarship or arts)
- aptitude; talent
- source (of information, etc.); circle; channel
- well-informed person (in a transaction)
- logical move (in go, shogi, etc.)
- ninth vertical line (shogi)
- seam on a helmet
- gristly fish paste (made of muscle, tendons, skin, etc.)
- social position; status
- (n-suf, n, adj-no) on (a river, road, etc.); along
- (suf, ctr) counter for long thin things
- (Edo period) counter for hundreds of mon (obsolete unit of currency)
