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


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