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Kanji Detail for 筋 - "muscle, line, logic"

筋

  • Meaning

    筋 means "muscle, line, logic."

    1. Muscle - Body tissue; sinew.

    2. Line - A continuous mark; a strand.

    3. Plot - A storyline; a scheme.

    4. Lineage - Family descent; bloodline.

    5. Logic - Reasoning; sense.

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    muscle; sinew; tendon; fiber; plot; plan; descent

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    muscles; tendons

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    muscle; tendon; veins visible under the skin; sth resembling tendons or veins (e.g. fiber in a vegetable)

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    muscles; tendons

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    Muscle. Hence the elderly lacking strength is called declining sinews and bones. Now physiology divides muscles into voluntary muscles and involuntary muscles. Voluntary muscles can be flexed at will. Also called striated muscles. Involuntary muscles are the opposite. Also called smooth muscles. The white and tough parts at both ends attached to bones are called tendons. Also collectively called 筋. The sinews of animals. That can be used as bow material. Refers to this. Colloquially, the bluish veins faintly visible under the skin are called 筋. Such as saying blue veins bulging. But these are all venous blood vessels. Not actually sinews.
  • Onyomitip

    kin(きん) きん

  • Kunyomitip

    suji(すじ) すじ

  • Strokestip

    12 strokes

  • Radicaltip

    竹 (take・takekammuri)

  • Related Keywords
    muscle sinew line strand plot story lineage bloodline logic reason sense fiber tendon thread vein streak descent heritage order structure

Sentences including 筋

  • It's time to get down to business.

  • I heard about it from another source last year.

  • It's wrong of you to talk back to her.

  • I don't understand this novel's plot.

  • He was so angry that his veins stood out.

  • Carry your head high.

  • What you are saying does not make sense.

  • Carry your head high.

  • What he is saying doesn't make sense.

  • What you are saying does not make sense.

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