籠 (lóng)
cage/basket/steamer (for dim sum)
How 籠 is written
- Strokes
- 22
- Radical
- ⺮ — bamboo
- Traditional
- 籠
- Simplified
- 笼
Components
- ⺮ bamboo
- 龍 dragon
籠 has 2 readings
The pronunciation changes with the meaning, so the reading has to be learned per word.
- lóng
- basket; cage; flat bamboo basket used to serve dimsum 點心|点心[dian3 xin5] such as 餃子|饺子[jiao3 zi5], 包子[bao1 zi5] etc; to cover
- lǒng
- to cover; to cage; covering; also pr. [long2]
Common words using 籠
- 燈籠 dēnglóng
- lantern
- 回籠 huílóng
- to steam again; to rewarm food in a bamboo steamer; to withdraw currency from circulation
- 籠子 lóngzi
- cage; coop; basket
- 籠罩 lǒngzhào
- to envelop; to shroud
- 出籠 chūlóng
- just out of the steamer basket 蒸籠|蒸笼; to appear (of products, publications, sometimes derog., "lots of shoddy material is appearing nowadays")
- 小籠包 xiǎolóngbāo
- steamed dumpling
- 牢籠 láolóng
- cage; trap (e.g. basket, pit or snare for catching animals); fig. bonds (of wrong ideas)
- 籠屜 lóngtì
- bamboo steamer (for buns or dimsum)
- 籠絡 lǒngluò
- to win sb over
- 籠統 lǒngtǒng
- general; broad; in general terms
- 籠頭 lóngtou
- headstall; bridle
- 蒸籠 zhēnglóng
- steamer basket (e.g. for dimsum)
籠 in a sentence
服務員，我們要一籠小籠包。
Fúwùyuán, wǒmen yào yī lóng xiǎolóngbāo.
“Waiter, we would like a steamer of xiaolongbao.”
How common is 籠?
籠 is the 1,925th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 96.8% of all running text.
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