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


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