| 笼子 | lóng zi | cage; basket; container | |
| 鸟笼 | niǎo lóng | birdcage | |
| 出笼 | chū lóng | just out of the steamer basket 蒸笼 ; to appear (of products, publications, sometimes derog., "lots of shoddy material is appearing nowadays") | |
| 回笼 | huí lóng | to steam again; to rewarm food in a bamboo steamer; to withdraw currency from circulation | |
| 牢笼 | láo lóng | cage; trap (e.g. basket, pit or snare for catching animals); fig. bonds (of wrong ideas); shackles (of past misconceptions); to trap; to shackle |
| 笼罩 | lǒng zhào | to envelop; to shroud | |
| 笼统 | lǒng tǒng | general; broad; sweeping; lacking in detail; vague | |
| 笼络 | lǒng luò | to coax; to beguile; to win over | |
| 大雾笼罩 | dà wù lǒng zhào | to be engulfed in a dense fog (idiom) |
| 1 | The valley is shrouded in cloud and fog. | |
| 2 | Almost all Shanghai people like xiaolongbao. | |
| 3 | The little white mouse is playing in its cage. | |
| 4 | During Spring Festival, the front door was decorated with red lanterns. | |
| 5 | The distant mountains looked as if they were shrouded in a thin layer of mist. |
