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篭: basket

basket; shut oneself in
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Readings

On
ロウ・ル
Kun
かご・こめる・こもる・こむ

Variant of 籠. Read かご for a basket and こも.る for shutting oneself in; ロウ appears in 篭城 and 灯篭.

Key words

篭かごbasket
篭るこもるto shut oneself in
引き篭もりひきこもりshut-in; social withdrawal
篭城ろうじょうsiege; holing up in a castle
灯篭とうろうgarden lantern

Example sentences

I put apples and bread in the shopping basket and headed to the register.

On rainy days I stayed shut up in my room playing games all day.

Surrounded by the enemy, the soldiers held out in the castle until the food ran out.

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