笼 (籠) lóng

1. lóng noun a cage
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: (CC-CEDICT '籠'; Guoyu '籠' n 2; Kroll 2015 '籠' 1, p. 279; Unihan '籠')
2. lóng verb to cover
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Guoyu '籠' v 2)
3. lóng noun a basket
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: (CC-CEDICT '籠'; Guoyu '籠' n 1; Kroll 2015 '籠' 1, p. 279; Unihan '籠')
4. lóng verb to encircle
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Guoyu '籠' v 1; Kroll 2015 '籠' 2, p. 279)
5. lóng verb to trap; to trick
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Guoyu '籠' v 3; Kroll 2015 '籠' 2a, p. 279)
6. lóng verb to delimit
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Kroll 2015 '籠' 3, p. 279)

Contained in

• 笼头(籠頭) headstall; bridle
• 蝈蝈笼(蟈蟈籠) cage for singing cicada
• 笼子(籠子) cage; coop; basket; container
• 烘笼儿(烘籠兒) bamboo drying frame
• 猪笼(豬籠) cylindrical bamboo or wire frame used to constrain a pig during transport
• 灯笼鱼(燈籠魚) lantern fish
• 笼槛(籠檻) cage (for animals)
• 笼鸟槛猿(籠鳥檻猿) bird in a basket, monkey in a cage; prisoner
• 陷入牢笼(陷入牢籠) to fall into a trap; ensnared
• 笼嘴(籠嘴) muzzle (device)
• 牢笼(牢籠) cage; trap (e.g. basket, pit or snare for catching animals); fig. bonds (of wrong ideas); shackles (of past misconceptions); to trap; to shackle
• 出笼(出籠) just out of the steamer basket 蒸籠|蒸笼
• 大红灯笼高高挂(大紅燈籠高高掛) Raise the Red Lantern
• 灯笼果(燈籠果) cape gooseberry; Peruvian ground-cherry; Physalis peruviana
• 气笼(氣籠) a bamboo ventilation duct ; air pipe; bamboo air pipe used to aerate granary
• 笼络(籠絡) to coax; to beguile; to win over
• 灯笼花(燈籠花) Chinese enkianthus
• 灯笼(燈籠) lantern
• 鸡笼(雞籠) chicken cage ; Jilong [Taiwan] ; Keelung
• 小笼汤包(小籠湯包) steamed soup dumpling
• 笼屉(籠屜) bamboo steamer (for buns or dimsum)
• 回笼(回籠) to steam again; to rewarm food in a bamboo steamer; to withdraw currency from circulation
• 渔笼(漁籠) fishing pot (trap)
• 笼鸟(籠鳥) a caged bird
• 笼统(籠統) general; broad; sweeping; lacking in detail; vague
• 竹笼(竹籠) a bamboo cage
• 囚笼(囚籠) cage used to hold or transport prisoners
• 烘笼(烘籠) bamboo drying frame
• 鸽子笼(鴿子籠) pigeon cage
• 猪笼草(豬籠草) tropical pitcher plant (i.e. genus Nepenthes)
• 樊笼(樊籠) bird cage
• 灯笼裤(燈籠褲) bloomers; plus fours; knickerbockers
• 笼罩(籠罩) to envelop
• 浸猪笼(浸豬籠) to drown somebody in a wicker basket, a form of 沉潭
• 罐笼(罐籠) elevator cage (in mine)
• 蒸笼(蒸籠) steaming basket
• 身陷牢笼(身陷牢籠) fallen into a trap
• 小笼包(小籠包) steamed dumpling
• 睡回笼觉(睡回籠覺) to go back to sleep (instead of rising up in the morning); to sleep in
• 烝笼(烝籠) a steaming basket
• 鸟笼(鳥籠) birdcage
• 槛花笼鹤(檻花籠鶴) a flower in a cage, a crane in a basket; prisoner

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• 第七十八回 Chapter 78 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 18
• 卷六十一　志第十三: 　地理四 Volume 61 Treatises 14: Geography 4 History of Yuan 元史 — count: 14
• 卷四十六 志第二十二 地理七 Volume 46 Treatises 22: Geography 7 History of Ming 明史 — count: 12
• 卷十三 Scroll 13 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 10
• 卷一百五十二 志第一百〇五 輿服四 Volume 152 Treatises 105: Carriages and Clothes 4 History of Song 宋史 — count: 10
• 第一百九回 Chapter 109 Romance of the Three Kingdoms 三國演義 — count: 9
• 第七十七回 Chapter 77 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 9
• 第三十九回 Chapter 39 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 9
• 卷七十八　志第二十八: 　輿服一 Volume 78 Treatises 31: Carriages and Clothes 1 History of Yuan 元史 — count: 8
• 卷三百二十一 列傳第二百〇九 外國二 安南 Volume 321 Biographies 209: Foreign States 2 - Annan History of Ming 明史 — count: 7

Collocations

• 蒙笼 (蒙籠) 躐蒙籠 — Huainanzi 淮南子, 卷十九　脩務訓 Chapter 19: Cultivation of Effort — count: 10
• 铁笼 (鐵籠) 令其宗人盡斷其車軸末而傅鐵籠 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《田單列傳》 Biography of Tian Dan — count: 9
• 笼冠 (籠冠) 一名籠冠 — Book of Jin 晉書, 卷二十五 志第十五 輿服 Volume 25 Treatises 15: Travel and Dress — count: 9
• 孔笼 (孔籠) 孔籠 — Book of Zhou 周書, 卷45 列傳第37 儒林 Volume 45 Biographies 37: Confucian Scholars — count: 7
• 笼中 (籠中) 置之籠中 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《龜策列傳》 Biographies of Diviners — count: 7
• 笼盛 (籠盛) 乃以笼盛其母 — Records of the Three Kingdoms 三國志, 卷十八 魏書十八 二李臧文呂許典二龐閻傳 Volume 18: Book of Wei 18 - Biographies of the two Lis, Zang, Wen, Lü, Xu, Dian, the two Pangs, and Yan — count: 5
• 笼樊 (籠樊) 豈顧籠樊之糧 — Book of Liang 梁書, 卷三十七 列傳第三十一 謝舉 何敬容 Volume 37: Xie Ju; He Jingrong — count: 5
• 火笼 (火籠) 以大瓠爲火籠 — Book of Southern Qi 南齊書, 卷五十二 列傳第三十三 文學 Volume 52 Biographies 33: Men of Letters — count: 5
• 空笼 (空籠) 徒獻空籠 — Garden of Stories 說苑, 卷十二 奉使 Chapter 12: Receiving and Implementing Orders — count: 5
• 笼城 (籠城) 青至籠城 — Book of Han 漢書, 卷五十五 衞青霍去病傳 Volume 55: Wei Qing and Huo Qubing — count: 4