(すじ) (n) (1) muscle; tendon; sinew; (2) vein; artery; (3) fiber; fibre; string; (4) line; stripe; streak; (5) (See 筋が通る) reason; logic; (6) plot; storyline; (7) lineage; descent; (8) school (e.g. of scholarship or arts); (9) aptitude; talent; (10) source (of information, etc.); circle; channel; (11) well-informed person (in a transaction); (12) logical move (in go, shogi, etc.); (13) ninth vertical line (shogi); (14) seam on a helmet; (15) (abbr) (See 筋蒲鉾) gristly fish paste (made of muscle, tendons, skin, etc.); (16) (arch) social position; status; (n-suf,n,adj-no) (17) on (a river, road, etc.); along; (suf,ctr) (18) counter for long thin things; (19) (arch) (Edo period) counter for hundreds of mon (obsolete unit of currency); (P) [EDICT]
(くだり) (n) passage; paragraph [EDICT]
(じょう) (n) (1) article (in document); provision; (2) stripe; streak; line [EDICT]
(tiáo, ㄊㄧㄠˊ) strip; item; article; clause (of law or treaty); classifier for long thin things (ribbon, river, road, trousers etc) [CE-DICT]
美
(び) (n,n-suf) beauty; (P) [EDICT]
(měi, ㄇㄟˇ) America; beautiful [CE-DICT]
分
(ふん) (n) minute; (P) [EDICT]
(ぶ) (n) (1) (See 文・もん・2) one-tenth; one percent (one-tenth of a wari); 3 mm (one-tenth of a sun); 2.4 mm (one-tenth of a mon, a traditional unit used to measure shoe sizes); 0.375 grams (one-tenth of a monme); 0.1 degree (one-tenth of a do, used to measure body temperature on any temperature scale); (2) one-quarter of a ryou (obsolete unit of currency); (3) thickness; (4) advantageous circumstances [EDICT]
(ぶん) (n,n-suf,pref) (1) part; segment; share; ration; (2) rate; (3) (See 身分) degree; one's lot; one's status; relation; duty; kind; lot; (4) in proportion to; just as much as; (P) [EDICT]
(fēn, ㄈㄣ) to divide; to separate; to allocate; to distinguish (good and bad); part or subdivision; fraction; one tenth (of certain units); unit of length equivalent to 0.33 cm; minute [CE-DICT]
