笼

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

to cover / to cage / covering / also pr. [long2]

"bamboo" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 118)

bamboo / CL:棵[ke1],支[zhi1],根[gen1] / Kangxi radical 118

surname Long

dragon / CL:條|条[tiao2] / imperial

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

lantern

bloomers / plus fours / knickerbockers

cage used to hold or transport prisoners

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

(of food) to be taken out of the steamer / (fig.) (often used with 紛紛|纷纷[fen1 fen1]) (of products, information etc) to appear / to emerge / to come out / (fig.) to dump / to inundate the market

bird cage / (fig.) prison / confinement

fishing pot (trap)

bamboo drying frame

bamboo drying frame

cape gooseberry / Peruvian ground-cherry / Physalis peruviana

Chinese enkianthus

lantern fish

cylindrical bamboo or wire frame used to constrain a pig during transport

Raise the Red Lantern (1991), movie by Zhang Yimou 張藝謀|张艺谋[Zhang1 Yi4 mou2]

steamed dumpling

steamed soup dumpling

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

air pipe / bamboo air pipe used to aerate granary

to drown sb in a wicker basket, a form of 沉潭[chen2 tan2]