籠
basket; devote oneself; seclude oneself; cage; coop; implied
22 strokes. Jōyō kanji, taught in secondary school.
Readings
- かご (kun reading): 籠 (かご) basket (shopping, etc.); 駕籠 (かご) palanquin
- ロウ (on reading): 籠城 (ろうじょう) holding a castle (during a siege); 灯籠 (とうろう) garden lantern
- こめる (kun reading): 籠手 (こて) bracer (arm guard used in archery); 塗籠 (ぬりごめ) interior closed room with heavily plastered walls in a Heian palace
- ル (on reading)
- こもる (kun reading): 巣籠る (すごもる) to nest; 恋い籠る (こいこもる) to cause heartache because of a (hidden) love
- こむ (kun reading): 取り籠もる (とりこもる) to seclude oneself
- Read as a whole word: 旅籠 (はたご) inn; 旅籠屋 (はたごや) hatago (type of Edo-period inn for travellers); 片旅籠 (かたはたご) one-night stay (with just breakfast or dinner)
Components
Words using 籠
- 籠 (かご) basket (shopping, etc.)
- 駕籠 (かご) palanquin
- 花籠 (はなかご) flower basket
- 籠の鳥 (かごのとり) caged bird
- 果物籠 (くだものかご) fruit basket
- 籠城 (ろうじょう) holding a castle (during a siege)
- 灯籠 (とうろう) garden lantern
- 石灯籠 (いしどうろう) stone lantern
- 参籠 (さんろう) retirement (to a temple of shrine) for prayer
- 印籠 (いんろう) inro
- 旅籠 (はたご) inn
- 旅籠屋 (はたごや) hatago (type of Edo-period inn for travellers)
- 片旅籠 (かたはたご) one-night stay (with just breakfast or dinner)
- 籠手 (こて) bracer (arm guard used in archery)
- 塗籠 (ぬりごめ) interior closed room with heavily plastered walls in a Heian palace
- 伏せ籠 (ふせご) frame for drying or perfuming clothes (oft. made out of bamboo)
- 皮籠 (かわご) baskets wrapped in paper, bark or skin
- 弓籠手 (ゆごて) archer's bracer
- 巣籠る (すごもる) to nest
- 恋い籠る (こいこもる) to cause heartache because of a (hidden) love
- 夜籠り (よごもり) the dead of night
- 鶴の巣籠り (つるのすごもり) crane's nest tesuji
- 取り籠もる (とりこもる) to seclude oneself
- 小籠包 (ショウロンポウ) xiaolongbao (eastern Chinese steamed bun)
- 蒸籠 (チョンロン) Chinese bamboo steamer
- 焼き小籠包 (やきショーロンポー) shengjian mantou
80 words in all.