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