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

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 [script needed] (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 [Term?], 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. [Pinyin]

     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。 [Literary Chinese, trad.]
     日月笼中鸟，乾坤水上萍。 [Literary 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. [Pinyin]

     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.)
4. Classifier for food in a steamer basket.
   • 2001, “大包整多兩籠”, 謝立文 [Brian Tse] (lyrics), 舒曼 [Robert Schumann] (music), performed by 李晉緯 [Lee Chun-Wai]:

     大包整多兩籠唔怕滯 [Cantonese, trad.]
     大包整多两笼唔怕滞 [Cantonese, simp.]

     daai⁶ baau¹ zing² do¹ loeng⁵ lung⁴ m⁴ paa³ zai⁶ [Jyutping]

     Two more steamers of large chicken buns for me! I won't fret feeling bloated

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 [Jyutping]  ―  camphor box

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

   內籠／内笼 [Cantonese]  ―  noi⁶ lung^5-2 [Jyutping]  ―  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(れん)濁(だく)).

• (Tokyo) かご [kàgó] (Heiban – [0])^[1][2]
• IPA^(key): [ka̠ɡo̞]

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)

• “籠”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[1] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2026

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): [ɾo̞ŋ] ~ [no̞ŋ]
• Phonetic hangul: [롱/농]

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. [2]

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

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]

• 御籠 (mi₁-ko₁)

• Japanese: 籠 (ko)

籠: Hán Việt readings: lung^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}, lộng^[5]
籠: Nôm readings: lồng^{[1][2][3][4][6][7][8]}, lung^{[1][2][3][6][8]}, ruồng^[4][6][7][8], trông^[2][6][8], luông^[3], luồng^[3]

1. chữ Nôm form of lồng (“cage”)
2. chữ Nôm form of lung (“used in lung tung (“in utter confusion; disorderly; chaotic”)”)