笼 (lóng) means Basket (cage). Below are 7 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.
Dictionary examples
大雾 笼 罩着整座城市。
Dàwù lǒngzhàozhe zhěng zuò chéngshì.
Thick fog shrouded the whole city.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 笼罩
山谷里 笼 罩着浓厚的雾。
Shāngǔ lǐ lǒngzhàozhe nónghòu de wù.
Thick fog hung over the valley.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 浓厚
门口悬挂着两只红灯 笼 。
Ménkǒu xuánguàzhe liǎng zhī hóng dēnglong.
Two red lanterns hang at the door.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 悬挂
孩子提着灯 笼 在院子里跑。
Háizi tízhe dēnglong zài yuànzi lǐ pǎo.
The child ran round the yard carrying a lantern.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 灯笼
元宵节晚上到处挂着灯 笼 。
Yuánxiāo Jié wǎnshang dàochù guàzhe dēnglong.
On the night of the Lantern Festival lanterns hang everywhere.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 元宵节
一种不安的气氛 笼 罩着会场。
Yì zhǒng bù'ān de qìfēn lǒngzhàozhe huìchǎng.
An uneasy atmosphere hung over the hall.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 笼罩
过节的时候家家门口都挂着红灯 笼 。
Guòjié de shíhou jiājiā ménkǒu dōu guàzhe hóng dēnglong.
At festival time every doorway hangs a red lantern.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 灯笼
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Words that contain 笼
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Questions about 笼
How is 笼 used in a sentence?
This page shows 7 sentences using 笼 (lóng, "Basket (cage)"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.
Are these sentences machine generated?
No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.
Why do some sentences show 笼 inside a longer word?
Because that is where a single character usually lives. Seeing 笼 inside the words it builds is how the character stops being an isolated symbol and starts being something you can read.
Where can I see the full entry for 笼?
The dictionary page for 笼 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.
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