Keyword
cage
- basket
- bamboo basket used to serve dimsum
- Frequency
- #1907
- Strokes
- 11
Readings
lóng
Mnemonic
⺮ (bamboo) gives the meaning and 龙 the sound.
Stroke order
Composed of
Used in vocabulary
灯笼
lantern
笼罩
to envelop; to shroud
笼子
cage; basket; container
笼
enclosing frame made of bamboo, wire etc; cage; basket; steamer basket
笼
to envelop; to cover; (used in 笼子 (lǒngzi)) large box; Taiwan pr. lóng
笼统
general; broad; sweeping; lacking in detail; vague
牢笼
cage; trap (e.g. basket, pit or snare for catching animals); fig. bonds (of wrong ideas); shackles (of past misconceptions); to trap; to shackle
鸟笼
birdcage
出笼
(of food) to be taken out of the steamer; (fig.) (often used with 纷纷 (fēnfēn)) (of products, information etc) to appear; to emerge; to come out; (fig.) to dump; to inundate the market
回笼
to steam again; to rewarm food in a bamboo steamer; to withdraw currency from circulation
笼络
to coax; to beguile; to win over
笼子
large box; trunk; chest
猪笼草
tropical pitcher plant (i.e. genus Nepenthes)
蒸笼
steamer basket (e.g. for dim sum)
小笼包
steamed dumpling
囚笼
cage used to hold or transport prisoners
笼头
headstall; bridle
猪笼
cylindrical bamboo or wire frame used to constrain a pig during transport
樊笼
bird cage; (fig.) prison; confinement
灯笼裤
bloomers; plus fours; knickerbockers
纱笼
(loanword) sarong
罐笼
(mining) mine cage
笼屉
bamboo steamer (for buns or dim sum)
灯笼花
Chinese enkianthus