Jisho

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16 strokes
Radical:
bamboo 竹 (⺮)
Parts:
Variants:
seclude oneself, cage, coop, implied
Kun:
かごこ.めるこも.るこ.む
On:
ロウ
2237 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 牢 【ロウ】 prison, jail, gaol, firm, solid, strong
  • 籠城 【ロウジョウ】 holding a castle (during a siege), holing up, confinement (to one's home), staying at home, staying indoors
  • 蒸籠 【セイロ】 bamboo steamer, steaming basket, wooden frame holder with reed base used to steam food over a pot, soba served on a small wickerwork tray, wickerwork tray (for serving soba)
  • 灯籠 【トウロウ】 garden lantern, hanging lantern

Kun reading compounds

  • 籠 【かご】 basket (shopping, etc.), hamper, cage
  • 籠の鳥 【かごのとり】 caged bird, person whose freedom has been restricted (esp. a prostitute, mistress, concubine, etc.)
  • 洗いかご 【あらいかご】 drying basket (e.g. for dishes)
  • 籐かご 【とうかご】 woven basket, rattan basket
  • 込める 【こめる】 to load (a gun, etc.), to charge, to put into (e.g. emotion, effort), to include (e.g. tax in a sales price), to hang over, to shroud, to enshroud, to envelop, to screen
  • 籠もる 【こもる】 to shut oneself in (e.g. one's room), to be confined in, to seclude oneself, to hide away, to stay inside (one's shell), to fill with (emotion, enthusiasm, power, etc.), to imbue with, to infuse with, to fill a space (of a gas, smell, etc.), to be heavy with (e.g. smoke), to be stuffy, to be dense, to be muffled (e.g. voice), to hold (a castle, fortress, etc.), to confine oneself in a temple to pray

Readings

Japanese names:
ごめ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
long2, long3
Korean:
rong

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3373 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
26371 Morohashi
4332 New Nelson (John Haig)
2638 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1022 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
6f16.1 The Kanji Dictionary
2-6-10 SKIP code
2-6-16 SKIP code
8871.6 Four corner code
1-47-22 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
7bed Unicode hex code