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

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to wound; to injure
• to hurt someone's feelings (pride, etc.)
• to damage; to chip; to scratch

noun:

• profile; face in profile; face seen from the side
• (personal) profile; (biographical) sketch; outline (of someone's life)

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to brace one's legs; to straddle; to stand firm; to plant oneself (somewhere); to hold out; to persist

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to blink (one's eyes); to wink; to bat - またたく is sometimes used transitively
• to twinkle (e.g. stars); to flicker; to waver

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to leave nothing undone; to do all in one's might; to do everything possible

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to be used up (e.g. one's savings); to dwindle away
• to be wasted (time, effort, etc.)

noun:

• being forced to commit seppuku
• to be forced to bear responsibility and resign from one's position ➜ 詰め腹を切らされる

noun:

• primula (any flower of genus Primula, which includes primroses, cowslips and cyclamens)
• Siebold's primrose (Primula siebold)

expression:

• even though one has fallen on hard times; however down on one's luck one may be

expression:

• all's grist that comes to his mill; turn everything to good account; turn anything to profit - proverb ➜ 転んでもただでは起きない

~する verb (spec.) / transitive:

• to give rein to (imagination); to lend wings to (fancy) ➜ 逞しくする
• to rage with all one's force; to be rampant

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to shed many tears; to weep; to wring dry one's sleeve (which has been soaked by tears) [literal]

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to work hard; to toil; to moil; to keep one's nose to the grindstone; to slug away

expression:

• all's grist that comes to his mill; turn everything to good account; turn anything to profit - proverb

expression:

• all's grist that comes to his mill; turn everything to good account; turn anything to profit - proverb ➜ 転んでもただでは起きない

expression:

• all's grist that comes to his mill; turn everything to good account; turn anything to profit - proverb ➜ 転んでもただでは起きない

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to fix one's eyes on; to stare intently at; to study carefully (with the eyes)

expression:

• the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence; other people's flowers are redder [literal] - proverb

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to jump; to leap ➜ 踊る
• to pound (of one's heart, i.e. with excitement); to throb
• to be messily written

godan ~う verb / transitive:

• to finish; to stop; to end; to put an end to; to bring to a close
• to close (a business, etc.); to close down; to shut down; to shut up
• to put away; to put back; to keep; to store

auxiliary verb / godan ~う verb:

• to finish ...; to do ... completely - after the -te form of a verb, indicates completion (and sometimes reluctance, regret, etc.)

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to leave; to depart; to take one's leave

noun:

• attending physician; doctor-in-charge; attending doctor; one's doctor

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to nod one's head; to nod yes; to agree

expression / godan ~ぶ verb:

• to occur to one; to cross one's mind