籠

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

• 𭍌, 𭟬, 𬅚, 𬎡, 𥸉

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

• Unihan data for U+F944

Historical forms of the character 籠
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *roːŋ, *roːŋʔ, *roŋ) : semantic 𥫗 + phonetic 龍 (OC *b·roŋ, *mroːŋ).

Attested somewhat late, in Warring States period's texts.

A Southeast Asian area word (Alves 2015).

• Per Schuessler 2007, most likely of Austroasiatic origin. Compare Proto-Mon-Khmer *truŋ (“stable, sty, cage”) and *kruŋ (“to confine”) in Shorto 2006, whence Khmer ទ្រុង (trŭng, “cage”), ក្រុង (krŏng, “to confine”), Kuy thrùŋ (“cage”), potentially Vietnamese chuồng (“cage; shed; coop”), and so forth. The Vietnamese may possibly be an early Chinese loan instead (Alves 2018).
• STEDT reconstructs Proto-Sino-Tibetan *kruːŋ (“cage”), based on e.g. Garo gring (“cage”), Burmese ချိုင့် (hkyuing.). Schuessler thinks these were also borrowed from Austroasiatic.
• Other forms include Proto-Tai , whence Thai กรง (grong, “cage”); and Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kuruŋ, whence Indonesian kurung (“cage”), Tagalog kulong (“caged”). Schuessler believes these are also ultimately from Austroasiatic.

籠

1. bamboo-made implement for holding soil
2. bamboo-made cage (for animals); coop

   • 一雀適羿，羿必得之，威也；以天下為之籠，則雀無所逃。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     一雀适羿，羿必得之，威也；以天下为之笼，则雀无所逃。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: Zhuangzi, circa 3^rd – 2^nd centuries BCE

     Yī què shì Yì, Yì bì dé zhī, wēi yě; yǐ tiānxià wèi zhī lóng, zé què wú suǒ táo.

     If a single sparrow came within Archer Yi's range, he was sure to bring it down—impressive shooting. But he might have made the whole world into a cage, and then the sparrows would have had no place to flee to.

   • 日月籠中鳥，乾坤水上萍。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     日月笼中鸟，乾坤水上萍。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: 衡州送李大夫七丈勉赴廣州 "At Hengzhou Seeing Off Censor-in-Chief Li Mian, the Seventh Gentleman, on his Way to Guangzhou", Du Fu, eighth century

     Rìyuè lóng zhōng niǎo, qiánkūn shuǐshàng píng.

     The sun and moon are birds in a coop; heaven and earth are duckweed on water.

3. bamboo container, holder, hoop, basket, steamer (for buns, dumplings, etc.)

Others:

• → Vietnamese: lồng (Alves 2018)
• →? Vietnamese: chuồng (Baxter & Sagart 2014)

籠

1. (～竹) A kind of bamboo produced in the Lingnan region of China.

籠

1. to cover (all); to encompass; to include
2. to shroud; to envelop; to enshroud
3. to hide (one's hands, e.g. in the sleeves)
4. to twine; to wind; to tie up
5. to light (a fire); to kindle
6. large bamboo box; trunk
7. (Cantonese) large box; trunk

   樟木籠／樟木笼 [Cantonese]  ―  zoeng¹ muk⁶ lung⁵   ―  camphor box

8. (Cantonese) interior (Classifier: 個／个 c)

   內籠／内笼 [Cantonese]  ―  noi⁶ lung²   ―  interior

9. (Cantonese) Classifier for 嘢 (je5), used in combination to describe negative matters caused by or associated with someone.
10. (Shanghainese, slang) a hundred of a currency designation

    Synonym: 龍／龙

(Jōyō kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 篭)

• Go-on: る (ru)
• Kan-on: ろう (rō, Jōyō)
• Sō-on: ろん (ron)
• Kun: かご (kago, 籠, Jōyō)、こむ (komu, 籠む)、こめる (komeru, 籠める)、こもる (komoru, 籠もる, Jōyō)、こもる (komoru, 籠る)
• Nanori: ごめ (gome)、もり (mori)

Appears to be derived from a compound of an uncertain element ka and 籠 (ko) below, with ko changing to go as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

• (Tokyo) かご (Heiban – )^[1][2]
• IPA^(key):

籠(かご) • (kago) 

1. a cage
2. a basket

籠(かご) • (Kago) 

1. a surname

⟨ko₁⟩ → /kʷo/ → /ko/

From Old Japanese.

籠(こ) • (ko) 

1. a basket, especially one made of bamboo
2. Short for 伏籠 (fusego): a clothes airer, or chicken coop

From Middle Chinese 籠 (MC luwng) and 籠 (MC luwngX).

籠(ろう) • (rō) 

1. Alternative spelling of 牢 (rō): a jail, prison; a cage; food (usually meat) used in offerings

籠(ろう) • (rō) 

1. basket
2. bring in
3. seclude oneself

• 印籠(いんろう) (inrō)

From Middle Chinese 籠 (MC luwng|luwngX). Recorded as Middle Korean 로ᇰ〯 (lwǒng) (Yale: lwǒng) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): ~
• Phonetic hangul:

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

籠

Wikisource

籠 (eumhun 대바구니 롱 (daebaguni rong), word-initial (South Korea) 대바구니 농 (daebaguni nong))

1. hanja form^? of 롱/농 (“basket”)

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

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籠 (ko₁) (kana こ)

1. a basket, especially one made of bamboo
   • c. 759, Man’yōshū, book 1, poem 1:
     ^[1]

     籠毛与美籠母乳布久思毛與美夫君志持...

     ko₁ mo yo₂ mi₁-ko₁ moti pukusi mo yo₂ mi₁-bukusi moti...

     Girl with your basket, with your pretty basket, with your shovel, with your pretty shovel...^[2]

• 籠もる (ko₂moru)
• 御籠 (mi₁-ko₁)

• Japanese: 籠 (こ, ko)

籠: Hán Nôm readings: lồng, lung, ruồng, luông, luồng

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