Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in junior high

Stroke count: 22

Meaning: basket, devote oneself, seclude oneself, cage, coop, implied

Kunyomi: かご こ.める こも.る こ.む

Onyomi: ロウ

Composition:

Radical

Radical:

Meaning: bamboo

Examples

Onyomi Examples

ロウ prison, jail, gaol, firm, solid, strong

ロウキュウ basketball

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)

トウロウ garden lantern, hanging lantern

Kunyomi Examples

かご basket (shopping, etc.), hamper, cage

で水を汲む かごでみずをくむ to bail out the ocean with a teaspoon, to scoop water with a basket

相合駕 あいあいかご two people riding in a palanquin together (esp. a man and a woman)

ほい駕 ほいかご crude palanquin, street palanquin

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

篭る 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 be filled with (emotion, enthusiasm, etc.), to fill the room (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