Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Textiles, Plants & Food

籠: basket, devote oneself

Also: seclude oneself, cage, coop, implied

N1 (our estimate)22 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met

竹 carries the meaning · 龍 is drawn in

22 strokes
  • Small seal · Qin
  • Today

Small seal: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Three readings, and the words that use each

ロウrou · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 印籠いんろうinro; seal case; pill box

かごkago · kun'yomi · on its own

  • 籠かごbasket (shopping, etc.); hamper; cage

こめるkomeru · kun'yomi

  • 籠もるこもるto shut oneself in (e.g. one's room)

Also read ル, こもる, こむ, with no example words in our sources. Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Where it comes from

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“Flexible and strong! Imagine a thicket of green bamboo swaying in the wind, bending but never breaking.”
More in the 竹 bamboo story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
竹

Also built on bamboo (竹)

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龍

Also built on 龍

Also read ロウ

15 kanji share this on'yomiAll 15

Also read ル

7 kanji share this on'yomi

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
籠 basket · 竹
vs襲 attack · 衣
籠 has 竹 where 襲 has 衣.
In ChineseSimplified 笼 · traditional, as in Japanese · lóng

Japan keeps the traditional form 籠; mainland China simplifies it to 笼.

Simplified
笼 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
籠 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin lóng most common reading

Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.

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