籠

See also: 笼 and 篭

Translingual

Han character

籠 (radical 118 竹+16, 22 strokes, cangjie input 竹卜月心 (HYBP), four-corner 8821₁)

1. cage
2. cage-like basket

References

• KangXi: page 904, character 45
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 26752
• Dae Jaweon: page 1329, character 33
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3031, character 3
• Unihan data for U+7C60

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Chinese

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trad.		籠
simp.		笼

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): lóng (long²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄨㄥˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): lung⁴, lung⁵
• Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ): lûng
• Min Nan (POJ): láng / lang

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: lóng
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄨㄥˊ
    • Wade-Giles: lung²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: long
    • IPA ^(key): /lʊŋ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: lung⁴, lung⁵
    • Yale: lùhng, lúhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: lung⁴, lung⁵
    • IPA ^(key): /lʊŋ²¹/, /lʊŋ¹³/
• Hakka
  • Romanisations:
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: lûng
    • IPA (Siyen, incl. Miaoli): /luŋ²⁴/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: láng / lang
    • Tâi-lô: láng / lang
    • IPA (Taipei): /laŋ⁴¹/, /laŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /laŋ⁵³/, /laŋ³⁴/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (籠, reconstructed)
Character (籠), Pronunciation 1/3
Initial: 來 (37) Final: 東 Division: I			Openness: Open Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 盧紅切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/luŋ/	/luŋ/	/luŋ/	/luŋ/	/ləwŋ/	/luŋ/	/luŋ/
Character (籠), Pronunciation 2/3
Initial: 來 (37) Final: 鍾 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 力鍾切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/lɨoŋ/	/li̯woŋ/	/lioŋ/	/lioŋ/	/luawŋ/	/lĭwoŋ/	/lioŋ/
Character (籠), Pronunciation 3/3
Initial: 來 (37) Final: 東 Division: I			Openness: Open Tone: Rising (X)			Fanqie: 力董切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/luŋX/	/luŋX/	/luŋX/	/luŋX/	/ləwŋX/	/luŋX/	/luŋX/

Old Chinese pronunciation (籠, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
籠								lóng								‹ luwng ›								/*k.rˤoŋ/								cage, coop
籠								lǒng								‹ luwngX ›								/*k.rˤoŋʔ/								basket; cage
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
籠					8412					龍					東					0					籠					/*roːŋ/
籠					8431					龍					東					0					曨					/*roːŋʔ/
籠					8439					龍					東					0					龍					/*roŋ/

Definitions

籠

1. basket

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Japanese

Kanji

籠

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• Goon: る (ru)
• Kan’on: ろう (rō)
• Kun: かご (kago), こめる (komeru), こもる (komoru)

Compounds

• 灯籠 (どうろう, dōrō): lantern
• 籠目 (かごめ, kagome): a kagome lattice
• 籠目紋 (かごめもん, kagome mon): a shape like the Star of David, appearing in the intersections of a kagome lattice
• 籠目籠目 (かごめかごめ, kagome kagome): a "bird-in-the-cage" -- a Japanese children's game, similar to Blind man's buff

Noun

籠 (hiragana かご, romaji kago)

1. basket

Noun

籠 (hiragana こ, romaji ko)

1. basket
   • c. 759, Man'yōshū (book 1, poem #1)

     籠毛与美籠母乳 [...]

References

• 1999 [c. 759], Akihiro Satake; Hideo Yamada, Rikio Kudō, Masao Ōtani, Yoshiyuki Yamazaki, Shin Nihon Koten Bungaku Taikei 1: Man'yōshū 1 (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, ISBN 4-00-240001-8:

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Korean

Hanja

籠 (rong>nong) (hangeul 롱>농, revised rong>nong, McCune-Reischauer rong>nong, Yale long>nong)

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Vietnamese

Han character

籠 (lung, lồng, ruồng, luông, luồng)

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