籠

Meaning

籠 centers on an enclosing container: a basket, cage, or coop. The abstract senses of devoting or secluding oneself grow from the image of being enclosed or wrapped up in something.

• 籠もるこもる
  N2

  to shut oneself in (e.g. one's room); to be confined in; to seclude oneself; to hide away; to stay inside (one's shell)

• 籠かご
  N3

  basket (shopping, etc.); hamper; cage

• 魚籠びく

  fish basket; creel

• 籠目かごめ

  woven-bamboo pattern

• 印籠いんろう

  inro; seal case; pill box; medicine case

• 葛籠つづら

  wicker clothes hamper

• 灯籠とうろう

  garden lantern; hanging lantern

• 籠手こて

  bracer (arm guard used in archery)

• 旅籠はたご

  inn; tavern; hatago; Edo-period lodging for travellers

• 揺り籠ゆりかご
  N1

  cradle

• 尾籠びろう

  indecent; indelicate; dirty; vulgar; risqué

• 籠城ろうじょう

  holding a castle (during a siege); holing up

• ほい駕籠ほいかご

  crude palanquin; street palanquin

• パン籠パンかご

  breadbasket

• ファラデーの籠ファラデーのかご

  Faraday cage

• 伏せ籠ふせご

  frame for drying or perfuming clothes (oft. made out of bamboo)

• 切組灯籠絵きりくみとうろうえ

  paper diorama (made from a woodblock print)

• 参籠さんろう

  retirement (to a temple of shrine) for prayer

• 反古籠ほぐかご

  wastebasket

• 取り籠もるとりこもる

  to seclude oneself; to shut oneself away

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