籠

See also: 笼

Translingual

Traditional	籠
Shinjitai (extended)	篭
Simplified	笼

Han character

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

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

trad.		籠
simp.		笼

Alternative forms

• 篭

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): lóng (long²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄨㄥˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): lung⁴, lung⁵
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): lûng / nùng / lùng
• Min Nan (POJ): láng / lâng / lông / lóng

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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
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: lûng / nùng / lùng
    • Hakka Romanization System: lung´ / nungˇ / lungˇ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: lung¹ / nung² / lung²
    • IPA: /luŋ²⁴/, /nuŋ¹¹/, /luŋ¹¹/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: láng / lâng / lông / lóng
    • Tâi-lô: láng / lâng / lông / lóng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: larng, laang, loong, lorng
    • IPA (Taipei): /laŋ⁵³/, /laŋ²⁴/, /lɔŋ²⁴/, /lɔŋ⁵³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /laŋ⁵³/, /laŋ¹³/, /lɔŋ¹³/, /lɔŋ⁵³/
    • Note: láng, lâng - vernacular, lông, lóng - literary.

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• Dialectal data▼

Variety	Location	edit 籠
Mandarin	Beijing	/luŋ³⁵/
	Harbin	/luŋ²⁴/
	Tianjin	/luŋ⁴⁵/
	Jinan	/luŋ⁴²/
	Qingdao	/ləŋ⁴²/
	Zhengzhou	/luŋ⁴²/
	Xi'an	/luŋ²⁴/ 蒸～ /luŋ⁵³/ ～子
	Xining	/luə̃²⁴/
	Yinchuan	/luŋ⁵³/
	Lanzhou	/lũn⁴⁴²/
	Ürümqi	/luŋ⁵¹/
	Wuhan	/noŋ²¹³/
	Chengdu	/noŋ³¹/
	Guiyang	/noŋ²¹/
	Kunming	/loŋ/
	Nanjing	/loŋ²⁴/
	Hefei	/ləŋ⁵⁵/
Jin	Taiyuan	/luəŋ¹¹/
	Pingyao	/luŋ¹³/
	Hohhot	/lũŋ³¹/
Wu	Shanghai	/loŋ²³/
	Suzhou	/loŋ¹³/
	Hangzhou	/loŋ²¹³/
	Wenzhou	/loŋ³¹/
Hui	Shexian	/lʌ̃⁴⁴/
	Tunxi	/lan⁴⁴/
Xiang	Changsha	/loŋ¹³/
	Xiangtan	/nən¹²/
Gan	Nanchang	/luŋ⁴⁵/
Hakka	Meixian	/luŋ⁴⁴/
	Taoyuan	/luŋ²⁴/
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/loŋ²¹/
	Nanning	/luŋ²¹/
	Hong Kong	/luŋ²¹/
Min	Xiamen (Min Nan)	/lɔŋ³⁵/ /laŋ³⁵/
	Fuzhou (Min Dong)	/løyŋ⁵³/
	Jian'ou (Min Bei)	/lɔŋ³³/
	Shantou (Min Nan)	/laŋ⁵⁵/ /leŋ⁵⁵/
	Haikou (Min Nan)	/loŋ³³/ /laŋ³¹/

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• Middle Chinese: /luŋ/, /lɨoŋ/, /luŋ^X/▼

Rime
Character	籠	籠	籠
Reading #	1/3	2/3	3/3
Initial (聲)	來 (37)	來 (37)	來 (37)
Final (韻)	東 (1)	鍾 (7)	東 (1)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open	Open
Division (等)	I	III	I
Fanqie	盧紅切	力鍾切	力董切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/luŋ/	/lɨoŋ/	/luŋX/
Pan Wuyun	/luŋ/	/lioŋ/	/luŋX/
Shao Rongfen	/luŋ/	/lioŋ/	/luŋX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ləwŋ/	/luawŋ/	/ləwŋX/
Li Rong	/luŋ/	/lioŋ/	/luŋX/
Wang Li	/luŋ/	/lĭwoŋ/	/luŋX/
Bernard Karlgren	/luŋ/	/li̯woŋ/	/luŋX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	lóng	lóng	lǒng

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*k.rˤoŋ/, /*k.rˤoŋʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*roːŋ/, /*roːŋʔ/, /*roŋ/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	籠	籠
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	lóng	lǒng
Middle Chinese	‹ luwng ›	‹ luwngX ›
Old Chinese	/*k.rˤoŋ/	/*k.rˤoŋʔ/
English	cage, coop	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	籠	籠	籠
Reading #	1/3	2/3	3/3
No.	8412	8431	8439
Phonetic component	龍	龍	龍
Rime group	東	東	東
Rime subdivision	0	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	籠	曨	龍
Old Chinese	/*roːŋ/	/*roːŋʔ/	/*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

Compounds

篝籠 (かがりかご) ‎(kagarikago): iron basket for a fire 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 灯籠 (どうろう) ‎(dōrō): lantern 鳥籠 (とりかご) ‎(torikago): birdcage

Kanji in this term
籠
かご Grade: S
kun'yomi

Pronunciation

• Kun'yomi
• (Tokyo) かご [kàgó] (Heiban - [0])
• IPA^(key): [ka̠ɡ̃o̞]

Noun

籠 ‎(hiragana かご, romaji kago)

1. cage
2. 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

• Satake, Akihiro; Hideo Yamada; Rikio Kudō; Masao Ōtani; Yoshiyuki Yamazaki (c. 759) Shin Nihon Koten Bungaku Taikei 1: Man’yōshū 1 (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, ISBN 978-4-00-240001-3, published 1999.

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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 (lồng, lung, ruồng, luông, luồng)

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