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    1. Dictionary
    2. Kanji
    3. 籠

    籠

    籠かご

    basket

    NTHome & HousingKanji22 strokes

    Kun'yomi

    かごこ.めるこも.るこ.む

    On'yomi

    ロウル

    Nanori

    ごめもり

    basketdevote oneselfseclude oneselfcagecoopimplied

    竹龍

    竹
    亠
    立
    龍
    竜
    月

    Stroke 0 / 22

    Speed1.0x

    笠篭籘龕籐聾襲籏龕襲笠篭聾籏籘籐籖

    Alternative forms of this concept

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    Concepts using this kanji

    籠もる

    to shut oneself in (e.g. one's room)

    籠

    basket (shopping, etc.)

    目籠

    openwork bamboo basket

    籠目

    woven-bamboo pattern

    籠手

    bracer (arm guard used in archery)

    手籠

    handbasket

    手提げ籠

    handbasket

    反古籠

    wastebasket

    果物籠

    fruit basket

    取り籠もる

    to seclude oneself

    石籠

    gabion

    参籠

    retirement (to a temple of shrine) for prayer

    薬籠中の物

    complete mastery of or over

    籠城作戦

    strategy of holing oneself up in a castle (house, building)

    籠球

    basketball

    小籠包

    xiaolongbao (eastern Chinese steamed bun)

    自家薬籠

    (something that is) available for use at any time

    夜籠り

    the dead of night

    籠目籠目

    "bird-in-the-cage" children's game

    籠絡手段

    means of cajolement (trickery)

    自家薬籠中の物

    complete mastery of or over

    射籠手

    archer's bracer

    籠で水を汲む

    to bail out the ocean with a teaspoon

    印籠

    inro

    虫籠格子

    ultra-fine lattice

    籠屋

    basket maker

    旅籠屋

    hatago (type of Edo-period inn for travellers)

    籠城

    holding a castle (during a siege)

    旅籠

    inn

    焼き小籠包

    shengjian mantou

    籠抜け

    slipping out the back way with swindled goods

    籠居

    staying at home or indoors

    盛籠

    fruit basket (as a votive offering)

    抱き籠

    bamboo wife

    尾籠

    indecent

    弓籠手

    archer's bracer

    回り灯籠

    revolving lantern

    薬籠

    medicine chest (container)

    石灯籠

    stone lantern

    紙屑籠

    wastepaper basket

    片旅籠

    one-night stay (with just breakfast or dinner)

    茶籠

    basket for tea ceremony instruments

    皮籠

    baskets wrapped in paper, bark or skin

    灯籠流し

    ceremony in which paper lanterns are floated down a river

    ファラデーの籠

    Faraday cage

    パン籠

    breadbasket

    籠鳥

    caged bird

    籠の鳥

    caged bird

    花灯籠

    flower lantern

    屑籠

    wastebasket

    切組灯籠絵

    paper diorama (made from a woodblock print)

    塩籠

    basket for salt by the ring

    相合駕籠

    two people riding in a palanquin together (esp. a man and a woman)

    雪見灯籠

    three-legged stone lantern

    籠耳

    memory like a sieve

    恋い籠る

    to cause heartache because of a (hidden) love

    魚籠

    fish basket

    虫籠窓

    window with an ultra-fine lattice (often on upper floors of traditional buildings, e.g. Kyoto townhouses)

    伏せ籠

    frame for drying or perfuming clothes (oft. made out of bamboo)

    灯籠

    garden lantern

    塗り籠め

    interior closed room with heavily plastered walls in a Heian palace

    葛籠

    wicker clothes hamper

    釣り籠

    angler's basket

    山駕籠

    mountain palanquin

    巣籠る

    to nest

    籠の垂れ

    hanging of a palanquin

    蒸籠

    bamboo steamer

    籠鳥恋雲

    longing for freedom when tied down

    町駕籠

    palanquin

    蛇籠

    gabion

    釣り灯籠

    hanging lantern

    盆灯籠

    Bon Festival lantern

    籠枕

    pillow made from bamboo or cane (for use during the summer)

    駕籠屋

    sedan chair bearer

    吊り籠

    gondola

    籠鳥檻猿

    denied freedom (of how to live one's life)

    辻駕籠

    street palanquin

    御忍び駕籠

    special palanquin for carrying a daimyo or his wife incognito

    ほい駕籠

    crude palanquin

    駕籠かき

    palanquin bearer

    駕籠

    palanquin

    燈籠鬢

    Edo-period hair style with inflated hair at the sides

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    Used in vocabulary

    • 亠
    • 月
    • 立
    • 竹
    • 龍
    • 竜

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    • 印籠
    • 屑籠
    • 参籠
    • 石灯籠
    • 巣籠る
    • 反古籠
    • 伏せ籠
    • 恋い籠る
    • 籠城
    • 蒸籠
    • 盆灯籠
    • 駕籠
    • 籠もる
    • 籠
    • 籠手
    • 籠居
    • 薬籠
    • 手籠
    • 尾籠
    • 自家薬籠中の物
    • 夜籠り
    • 紙屑籠
    • 釣り灯籠
    • 釣り籠
    • 灯籠流し
    • 葛籠
    • 吊り籠
    • 薬籠中の物
    • 目籠
    • 雪見灯籠
    • 籠目
    • 籠抜け
    • 旅籠
    • 籠の垂れ
    • 果物籠
    • 籠球
    • 魚籠
    • 蛇籠
    • 皮籠
    • 塩籠
    • 自家薬籠
    • 籠城作戦
    • 籠絡手段
    • 小籠包
    • 灯籠
    • 籠の鳥
    • 籠で水を汲む
    • 御忍び駕籠
    • 弓籠手
    • 射籠手
    • 手提げ籠
    • 回り灯籠
    • 辻駕籠
    • 塗り籠め
    • 燈籠鬢
    • 旅籠屋
    • 町駕籠
    • 籠枕
    • 籠目籠目
    • 茶籠
    • ファラデーの籠
    • 虫籠窓
    • 虫籠格子
    • 相合駕籠
    • ほい駕籠
    • 籠鳥
    • 花灯籠
    • 取り籠もる
    • 駕籠かき
    • 籠屋
    • 駕籠屋
    • 籠鳥檻猿
    • 片旅籠
    • 籠鳥恋雲
    • 抱き籠
    • 籠耳
    • 焼き小籠包
    • 石籠
    • パン籠
    • 盛籠
    • 切組灯籠絵
    • 山駕籠

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    • 笠
    • 篭
    • 籘
    • 龕
    • 籐
    • 聾
    • 襲
    • 籏
    • 籖

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