| 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 | After the light was turned off, the rat had to wait a short time before it was released form its cage. | |
| 2 | But Faraday cages can be costly. | |
| 3 | "Alas, " cries the cage bird, "I should not know where to sit perched in the sky." | |
| 4 | Interestingly, he cast her as the novice man killer in The Cage. | |
| 5 | These turnovers were an institution, and the girls called them 'muffs', for they had no others and found the hot pies very comforting to their hands on cold mornings. |
