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


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