笼
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enclosing frame made of bamboo, wire etc; cage; basket; steamer basket
11 strokes
Dict coverage rank #1,575 U+7B3C
How 笼 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
⺮ (semantic, “bamboo”) + 龙 (phonetic, lóng)
How to remember it
cage · Heisig RSH #2937
竹 bamboo + 龙 dragon
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 龙
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 龙 (lóng) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 龙 sound component | lóng | dragon; symbol of the emperor |
| 宠 | chǒng | to love; to favor, to pamper, to spoil; concubine |
| 拢 | lǒng | to collect, to bring together |
| 聋 | lóng | deaf |
| 陇 | lǒng | a mountain located in the Shanxi provice |
| 垄 | lǒng | grave, mound; furrow, ridge |
| 珑 | lóng | the tinkling of jewelry |
| 泷 | lóng | raining; wet, soaked; rapids; a river in Guangdong |
| 胧 | lóng | blurry, obscured; the condition or appearance of the moon |
| 茏 | lóng | tall grass; water-weeds |
| 咙 | lóng | throat |
| 眬 | lóng | faint, fuzzy, blurry |
| 砻 | lóng | millstone; to grind, to mill |
| 垅 | lǒng | grave, mound; furrow, ridge |
| 栊 | lóng | cage, pen; grating |
Words containing 笼
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 大红灯笼高高挂 | Dà hóng Dēng lóng Gāo gāo Guà | Raise the Red Lantern (1991), movie by Zhang Yimou 張藝謀|张艺谋[Zhang1 Yi4 mou2] |
| 法拉第笼 | Fǎ lā dì lóng | (physics) Faraday cage |
| 小笼包 | xiǎo lóng bāo | steamed dumpling |
| 小笼汤包 | xiǎo lóng tāng bāo | steamed soup dumpling |
| 八角笼 | bā jiǎo lóng | MMA octagon (octagonal cage used for mixed martial arts bouts) |
| 灯笼花 | dēng lóng huā | Chinese enkianthus |
| 灯笼鱼 | dēng lóng yú | lantern fish |
| 笼子 | lóng zi | cage; basket; container |
| 笼子 | lǒng zi | large box; trunk; chest |
| 笼头 | lóng tou | headstall; bridle |
| 地笼 | dì lóng | cage-like fish trap |
| 灯笼果 | dēng lóng guǒ | cape gooseberry; Peruvian ground-cherry; Physalis peruviana |
| 气笼 | qì lóng | air pipe; bamboo air pipe used to aerate granary |
| 出笼 | chū lóng | (of food) to be taken out of the steamer; (fig.) (often used with 紛紛|纷纷[fen1 fen1]) (of pr… |
| 笼火 | lóng huǒ | to make a fire |
| 回笼 | huí lóng | to steam again; to rewarm food in a bamboo steamer; to withdraw currency from circulation |
| 笼嘴 | lóng zuǐ | muzzle (device) |
| 笼鸟 | lóng niǎo | a caged bird |
| 鸟笼 | niǎo lóng | birdcage |
| 猪笼草 | zhū lóng cǎo | tropical pitcher plant (i.e. genus Nepenthes) |