筋

Meaning

1. n
   muscle; tendon; sinew
2. n
   vein; artery
3. n
   fiber; fibre; string
4. n
   line; stripe; streak
5. n
   reason; logic
6. n
   plot; storyline
7. n
   lineage; descent
8. n
   school (e.g. of scholarship or arts)
9. n
   aptitude; talent
10. n
    source (of information, etc.); circle; channel
11. n
    well-informed person (in a transaction)
12. n
    logical move (in go, shogi, etc.)
13. n
    ninth vertical line
14. n
    seam on a helmet
15. n abbreviation
    gristly fish paste (made of muscle, tendons, skin, etc.)
16. n archaic
    social position; status
17. n-sufnadj-no
    on (a river, road, etc.); along
18. sufctr
    counter for long thin things; counter for roads or blocks when giving directions
19. suf
    street (in Osaka)
20. sufctr archaic
    (Edo period) counter for hundreds of mon (obsolete unit of currency)
21. n
    muscle

Example sentences

• 全く筋が通っていない。私は酔っぱらって外で叫んでいたわけじゃない。

  It's completely illogical. It wasn't as if I was shouting outside while drunk.

• 屁理屈ばかり並べて、お前の言ってること全然筋が通ってないよ。

  All you do is string together a bunch of farfetched ideas. I can't understand a word of it.

• 物語の筋はある島を舞台に展開する。

  The action of the story takes place on an island.