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笼

lóng

HSK 6 Character Traditional 籠

What 笼 means

1. enclosing frame made of bamboo, wire etc; cage; basket
2. steamer basket

Other readings

笼 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• lǒngto envelop; to cover; (used in {笼子|lǒng zi}) large box; Taiwan pr. lóng

Example sentences

• 阴霾笼罩着伦敦。
  The haze enveloped London.
• 鸟儿逃出了笼子。
  The bird escaped from its cage.
• 灯笼在树枝上吊着。
  Dēnglóng zài shùzhī shàngdiào zhe.
  The lamp was suspended from the branch of a tree.
• 他认为这像个鸟笼。
  Tā rènwéi zhè xiàng gè niǎolóng.
  He thought that it was like a bird cage.
• 他觉得这像个鸟笼。
  He thought that it was like a bird cage.
• 老虎躺在笼子的中间。
  Lǎohǔ tǎng zài lóngzi de zhōngjiān.
  The tiger laid in the middle of the cage.

Words starting with 笼

• 笼罩lǒng zhàoto envelop; to shroud
• 笼子lóng zicage; basket; container
• 笼统lǒng tǒnggeneral; broad; sweeping
• 笼络lǒng luòto coax; to beguile; to win over
• 笼嘴lóng zuǐmuzzle (device)
• 笼火lóng huǒto make a fire
• 笼头lóng touheadstall; bridle
• 笼鸟lóng niǎoa caged bird
• 笼屉lóng tìbamboo steamer (for buns or dim sum)
• 笼槛lóng jiàncage (for animals)
• 笼鸟槛猿lóng niǎo jiàn yuánbird in a basket, monkey in a cage (idiom); prisoner

Words containing 笼

• 灯笼dēng lónglantern
• 鸟笼niǎo lóngbirdcage
• 出笼chū lóng(of food) to be taken out of the steamer; (fig.) (often used with 纷纷; to emerge
• 牢笼láo lóngcage; trap (e.g. basket, pit or snare for catching animals); fig. bonds (of wrong ideas)
• 蒸笼zhēng lóngsteamer basket (e.g. for dim sum)
• 回笼huí lóngto steam again; to rewarm food in a bamboo steamer; to withdraw currency from circulation
• 囚笼qiú lóngcage used to hold or transport prisoners
• 地笼dì lóngcage-like fish trap
• 气笼qì lóngair pipe; bamboo air pipe used to aerate granary
• 渔笼yú lóngfishing pot (trap)
• 烘笼hōng lóngbamboo drying frame
• 罐笼guàn lóng(mining) mine cage
• 猪笼zhū lóngcylindrical bamboo or wire frame used to constrain a pig during transport
• 小笼包xiǎo lóng bāosteamed dumpling
• 浸猪笼jìn zhū lóngto drown sb in a wicker basket, a form of 沉潭
• 烘笼儿hōng lóng rbamboo drying frame
• 灯笼果dēng lóng guǒcape gooseberry; Peruvian ground-cherry; Physalis peruviana
• 灯笼花dēng lóng huāChinese enkianthus
• 灯笼裤dēng lóng kùbloomers; plus fours; knickerbockers
• 灯笼鱼dēng lóng yúlantern fish
• 猪笼草zhū lóng cǎotropical pitcher plant (i.e. genus Nepenthes)
• 小笼汤包xiǎo lóng tāng bāosteamed soup dumpling
• 法拉第笼Fǎ lā dì lóng(physics) Faraday cage
• 睡回笼觉shuì huí lóng jiàoto go back to sleep (instead of rising up in the morning); to sleep in

Characters built on 龙

These share the phonetic component 龙 (lóng), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 宠chǒngto love; to pamper; to spoil
• 垄lǒngridge between fields; crop row; mounded soil forming a ridge in a field; grave mound
• 咙lóngused in 喉咙
• 聋lóngdeaf
• 拢lǒngto gather together; to collect; to approach; to draw near to; to add; to sum up
• 胧lóngused in 朦胧
• 龚Gōngsurname Gong
• 珑lóngtinkling of gem-pendants

Characters that look like 笼

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 莞guānSkimmia japonica
• 莹yíngluster of gems
• 湮yān(literary) to sink into oblivion; (literary) to silt up; Taiwan pr. yīn
• 笠lìbamboo rain hat
• 笺jiānletter; note-paper
• 鸳yuānmandarin duck

Sounds the same

Read lóng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 龙Chinese dragon; loong; (fig.) emperor; dragon
• 隆grand; intense; prosperous
• 咙used in 喉咙
• 聋deaf
• 泷rapids; waterfall; torrential (rain)
• 胧used in 朦胧
• 珑tinkling of gem-pendants
• 窿cavity; hole
• 茏Polygonum posumbu
• 砻(dialect) tool used to hull rice (similar to a grain mill)…
• 眬used in 蒙眬
• 巃steep; precipitous (of mountain)