lóng, lǒng
cage
Phonosemantic compound. ⺮ represents the meaning and 龍 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*k.rˤoŋ | luwng | lóng | cage, coop |
*k.rˤoŋʔ | luwngX | lǒng | basket; cage |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 7.9930% of movies
2091st most common character in movies
1928th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 22 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+7C60 |
Shuowen | “籠,舉土器也。一曰笭也。从竹,龍聲。” |
Sources
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