笼 — Chinese character
笼
lóng
basket; cage; bamboo basket used to serve dimsum
- Pinyin
- lóng
- Radical
- 118 ⽵ (Bamboo)
- Strokes
- 11
- Components
- 龙
- Formation
- pictophonetic — bamboo; meaning component ⺮; sound component 龙
- Traditional
- 籠
Common words with 笼
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 灯笼 (燈籠) | dēng lóng | lantern |
| 笼罩 (籠罩) | lǒng zhào | to envelop; to shroud |
| 笼子 (籠子) | lóng zi | cage; basket; container |
| 笼子 (籠子) | lǒng zi | large box; trunk; chest |
| 笼统 (籠統) | lǒng tǒng | general; broad |
| 牢笼 (牢籠) | láo lóng | cage; trap (e.g. basket, pit or snare for catching animals) |
| 鸟笼 (鳥籠) | niǎo lóng | birdcage |
| 出笼 (出籠) | chū lóng | (of food) to be taken out of the steamer; (fig.) (often used with 纷纷 (fēn fēn)) (of products, information etc) to appear |
| 回笼 (回籠) | huí lóng | to steam again; to rewarm food in a bamboo steamer |
| 笼络 (籠絡) | lǒng luò | to coax; to beguile |
| 猪笼草 (豬籠草) | zhū lóng cǎo | tropical pitcher plant (i.e. genus Nepenthes) |
| 蒸笼 (蒸籠) | zhēng lóng | steamer basket (e.g. for dim sum) |
English words written with 笼
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.