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籠 kanji
basket, devote oneself, seclude oneself, cage, coop, implied
- JLPT level
- Not on the lists
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- N3 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 22
- School grade
- Secondary school
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Kun readings
かごこめるこもるこむ
Variant forms
篭Words with 籠
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —印籠inro; seal case; pill box; medicine case
- —参籠retirement (to a temple of shrine) for prayer
- —籠城holding a castle (during a siege); holing up; confinement (to one's home); staying at home; staying indoors
- —籠居staying at home or indoors; living in seclusion; retirement
- —薬籠medicine chest (container)
- —尾籠indecent; indelicate; dirty; vulgar; risqué
- —籠球basketball
- —灯籠garden lantern; hanging lantern
- —籠鳥caged bird
- —石籠gabion; cage filled with stones
- —石灯籠stone lantern
- —盆灯籠Bon Festival lantern
- —燈籠鬢Edo-period hair style with inflated hair at the sides; lantern sideburns
- —花灯籠flower lantern; Bon festival lantern that is decorated with artificial flowers or has a floral pattern
- —釣り灯籠hanging lantern
- —灯籠流しceremony in which paper lanterns are floated down a river
- —雪見灯籠three-legged stone lantern
- —自家薬籠(something that is) available for use at any time; (someone who is) at one's beck and call; (something over which) one has complete mastery
- —籠城作戦strategy of holing oneself up in a castle (house, building)
- —籠絡手段means of cajolement (trickery)