noun:

• muscle; tendon; sinew
• vein; artery
• fiber; fibre; string
• line; stripe; streak
• reason; logic ➜ 筋が通る
• 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 - Shōgi term
• seam on a helmet
• gristly fish paste (made of muscle, tendons, skin, etc.) - abbreviation ➜ 筋蒲鉾
• social position; status - archaism

suffix noun / noun / ~の noun:

• on (a river, road, etc.); along

suffix / counter:

• counter for long thin things; counter for roads or blocks when giving directions
• (Edo period) counter for hundreds of mon (obsolete unit of currency) - archaism

noun:

• leaping flames; flying sparks

noun / ~する noun:

• spread of fire (due to leaping flames)
• repercussions in unanticipated areas; spilling over; effects of an incident spreading to those seemingly uninvolved

noun:

• impetigo contagiosa - colloquialism - usually written using kana alone ➜ 膿痂疹・膿疱疹

~の noun / noun:

• average; medium; common; ordinary

noun / ~の noun:

• mid-grade (item); regular grade

suffix noun:

• same level as; equal to; equivalent to; on par with
• each (e.g. month); every
• row of (teeth, houses, etc.); line of

expression:

• better starve than fatten on ill-gotten wealth; don't lower yourself to unjust acts, no matter how desperate you are; refraining to drink from a spring called Robber's Spring even if thirsty [literal] - proverb

noun:

• bout that goes according to a wrestler's strategy; match that goes according to one's plan - four character idiom - Sumo term

noun:

• staple; stapler clip
• staple (food, crop)
• staple (fiber) ➜ ステープルファイバー
• cable clip; clip used to attach electrical cable to wooden building material ➜ ステップル

expression:

• to each their own; different strokes for different folks; cut your coat to suit your cloth; a crab digs a hole like its own shell [literal] - idiom

noun:

• top and bottom; high and low; above and below; upper and lower ends; up and down

noun / ~する noun:

• going up and down; rising and falling; fluctuating
• going and coming back

noun:

• upper and lower classes; ruler and ruled; the government and the people
• first and second volumes

noun:

• using a meat ax when a knife would suffice; taking a sledgehammer to crack a nut; using a grand-scale measure (a massive instrument) to deal with an insignificant problem

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to make a lovely picture; to be perfect for a picture - idiom

expression / noun or verb acting prenominally:

• picture-perfect; picturesque - idiom

expression:

• So many people, so many minds; Everyone has his own ideas and tastes; It takes all sorts to make a world; To each his (her) own - four character idiom

godan ~う verb / intransitive verb:

• to all come in (e.g. teeth); to all come out (e.g. seedlings, flowers)

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to spend all of one's free time; to spend one's time without constraint

noun:

• Bizen sword (mid-Heian to early Kamakura periods)
• ancient Bizen ware (Kamakura to early Momoyama periods) ➜ 備前焼

expression:

• not negligible; not a little; to no small degree; to no small extent; quite a lot

expression / adjective:

• to not understand what somebody is getting at; to not understand what is being talked about

expression:

• learn to crawl before you learn to walk; until you ride a horse, ride a cow [literal] - proverb

adverb:

• or; otherwise
• furthermore; also
• perhaps; by some chance; possibly - archaism
• that being said; be that as it may - archaism
• however; but - archaism
• not to mention; needless to say - archaism
• as expected; sure enough - archaism
• really; at all - used to express emphatic denial, suspicion, or emotion - archaism

noun:

• how to manage (e.g. case); how to handle (e.g. machine); way with (e.g. children, animal)

expression:

• just as it is reassuring to have a companion when traveling, it is important for us to care for each other as we pass through this life

expression / adverb:

• by all means; at any cost; no matter what; at any rate; surely
• whether (one is) willing or not; willingly or unwillingly; willy-nilly
• on no account; by no means - with. neg. verb
• in the end; in the long run; after all; eventually

noun:

• seen in the dark or at a distance; (a woman) looking prettier when seen in the dark or at a distance - four character idiom

expression:

• it's hard to cut one's ties to close relatives even if they are wicked; you don't cut your finger off just because it's dirty [literal] - proverb

godan ~る verb:

• to ride on a person's shoulders; to be carried on a person's back

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to speak through one's tears; to speak with tears in one's eyes