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cage; basket; container
HSK 7-9
MMA octagon (octagonal cage used for mixed martial arts bouts)
large box; trunk; chest
to envelop / to shroud
HSK 7-9
general / broad / sweeping / lacking in detail / vague
HSK 7-9
(of food) to be taken out of the steamer / (fig.) (often used with 紛紛|纷纷) (of products, information etc) to appear / to emerge / to come out / (fig.) to dump / to inundate the market
lantern
HSK 7-9
to coax / to beguile / to win over
steamer basket (e.g. for dim sum)
steamed soup dumpling
to steam again / to rewarm food in a bamboo steamer / to withdraw currency from circulation
tropical pitcher plant (i.e. genus Nepenthes)
birdcage
bloomers / plus fours / knickerbockers
bird in a basket, monkey in a cage (idiom); prisoner
steamed dumpling
to make a fire
(mining) mine cage
cage used to hold or transport prisoners
cage (for animals)
cylindrical bamboo or wire frame used to constrain a pig during transport
fallen into a trap
cage / trap (e.g. basket, pit or snare for catching animals) / fig. bonds (of wrong ideas) / shackles (of past misconceptions) / to trap / to shackle
cape gooseberry / Peruvian ground-cherry / Physalis peruviana
Chinese enkianthus
muzzle (device)
cage for singing cicada
bird cage / (fig.) prison / confinement
to drown sb in a wicker basket, a form of 沉潭
cage-like fish trap
a caged bird
bamboo drying frame
Raise the Red Lantern (1991), movie by Zhang Yimou 張藝謀|张艺谋
fishing pot (trap)
a flower in a cage, a crane in a basket (idiom); prisoner
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enclosing frame made of bamboo, wire etc; cage; basket / steamer basket
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to envelop; to cover / (used in 籠子|笼子) large box / Taiwan pr. [long2]
to go back to sleep (instead of rising up in the morning) / to sleep in
bamboo drying frame
(physics) Faraday cage
to fall into a trap / ensnared
bamboo steamer (for buns or dim sum)
lantern fish
(loanword) sarong
headstall / bridle
air pipe / bamboo air pipe used to aerate granary


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