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筋

すじ

line, streak; tendon, sinew; plot, storyline

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Examples

  1. その小説の筋はよく分からない。

    そのしょうせつのすじはよくわからない。

    I don't really follow that novel's plot.

  2. 手の甲に青い筋が見えます。

    てのこうにあおいすじがみえます。

    You can see blue lines on the back of the hand.

  3. この肉は筋が多くて、少し固いですね。

    このにくはすじがおおくて、すこしかたいですね。

    This meat has a lot of sinew and is a bit tough.

Common patterns

話の筋
the thread of a story
筋が通る
to make sense, to be consistent
筋が多い
to be full of sinew

Memory tip

All the senses hang off the idea of "a line": a line under the skin, a line of gristle in meat, the line a story follows. Learn 筋が通っている — "it holds together, it makes sense".

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