笼
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Definitions
- 1. enclosing frame made of bamboo, wire etc
- 2. cage
- 3. basket
- 4. steamer basket
- 5. to cover
- 6. to cage
- 7. to embrace
- 8. to manipulate through trickery
Words Containing 笼
lantern
cage
general
to envelop
(of food) to be taken out of the steamer
to steam again
Raise the Red Lantern (1991), movie by Zhang Yimou 張藝謀|张艺谋[zhāng yì móu]
steamed dumpling
steamed soup dumpling
bird cage
a flower in a cage, a crane in a basket (idiom); prisoner
air pipe
to drown sb in a wicker basket, a form of 沉潭[chén tán]
fishing pot (trap)
bamboo drying frame
cape gooseberry
Chinese enkianthus
bloomers
lantern fish
cage
to go back to sleep (instead of rising up in the morning)
muzzle (device)
bamboo steamer (for buns or dim sum)
cage (for animals)
to coax
headstall
a caged bird
bird in a basket, monkey in a cage (idiom); prisoner
sarong (loanword)
(mining) mine cage
steamer basket (e.g. for dim sum)
cage for singing cicada
cylindrical bamboo or wire frame used to constrain a pig during transport
tropical pitcher plant (i.e. genus Nepenthes)
fallen into a trap
to fall into a trap
birdcage