笼 - lóng - Chinese character definition, English meaning and stroke order

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笼 (籠)

lóng

Definition

basket
cage
flat bamboo basket used to serve dimsum 点心
to cover
to cage
to embrace
to manipulate through trickery

Other pronunciations

lǒng

to cover
to cage
covering
also pr. [long2]

Character Decomposition

Related words (27)

muzzle (device)

headstall; bridle

cage; coop; basket; container

笼屉

lóng tì

bamboo steamer (for buns or dimsum)

cage (for animals)

a caged bird

just out of the steamer basket 蒸籠|蒸笼; to appear (of products, publications, sometimes derog., "lots of shoddy material is appearing nowadays")

回笼

huí lóng

to steam again; to rewarm food in a bamboo steamer; to withdraw currency from circulation

樊笼

fán lóng

bird cage; (fig.) prison; confinement

气笼

qì lóng

air pipe; bamboo air pipe used to aerate granary

fishing pot (trap)

lamp; lantern

bamboo drying frame

cage; trap (e.g. basket, pit or snare for catching animals); (fig.) bonds (of wrong ideas); shackles (of past misconceptions); to trap; to shackle

罐笼

guàn lóng

elevator cage (in mine)

蒸笼

zhēng lóng

steamer basket (e.g. for dimsum)

birdcage

(steamed) dumpling; (small steamed meatfilled) buns; soup dumpling (because of the sauce inside the dumpling)

灯笼果

dēng lóng guǒ

cape gooseberry; Peruvian ground-cherry; Physalis peruviana

灯笼裤

dēng lóng kù

bloomers; plus fours; knickerbockers

lantern fish

bamboo drying frame

cage for singing cicada

小笼汤包

xiǎo lóng tāng bāo

steamed soup dumpling

睡回笼觉

shuì huí lóng jiào

to go back to sleep (instead of rising up in the morning); to sleep in

fallen into a trap

to fall into a trap; ensnared

Idioms (2)

笼鸟槛猿

lóng niǎo jiàn yuán

bird in a basket, monkey in a cage (idiom); prisoner

槛花笼鹤

jiàn huā lóng hè

a flower in a cage, a crane in a basket (idiom); prisoner

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