籠 - Dong Chinese dictionary

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lóng, lǒng

cage

Phonosemantic compound. ⺮ represents the meaning and 龍 represents the sound.

Components

⺮ Meaning component

zhú

bamboo

⺮ is a component form of 竹.

龍 Sound component

lóng

dragon

Evolution

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

笼 (籠)

lóng

cage; cage-like basket; enclosing frame made of bamboo, wire etc; basket; steamer basket; to cover; to cage; to embrace; to manipulate through trickery

笼 (籠)

lǒng

covering; also pr. [lóng]

Most common words with 籠

Freq.	Word	Meaning
	笼子	cage
	笼罩	to envelop
	笼	cage
	灯笼	lantern
	回笼	to steam again

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese	Middle Chinese	Pinyin	Gloss
*k.rˤoŋ	luwng	lóng	cage, coop
*k.rˤoŋʔ	luwngX	lǒng	basket; cage

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 7.9930% of movies

2091st most common character in movies

1928th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes	22
Simplified	笼
Unicode	U+7C60
Shuowen	“籠，舉土器也。一曰笭也。从竹，龍聲。”

Sources

MTSU Chinese text computing

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