CAGE    鳥籠

BOX to REAR BIRDS OR ANIMALS IN, TYPICALLY MADE OF TIMBER, BAMBOO, OR METAL.
ENCLOSUREPENPOUNDCOOPHUTCHBIRDCAGEAVIARYCORRAL
Old Chinese Criteria
1. The xiá 柙 is a strong restrictive cage which may be very large so as to contain even tigers. 2. Lóng 籠 is prototypically a bamboo bird cage, and the word also has figurative uses. 3. Fán 樊 is a rare word referring to a bird's cage of some kind which we can no longer reconstruct.
Modern Chinese Criteria
鳥籠 籠 櫳 柙 檻 rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／
See also
  • STABLEBUILDING USED FOR REARING DOMESTIC ANIMALS.
  • STABLEBUILDING USED FOR REARING DOMESTIC ANIMALS.
Hypernym
  • BOX　CLOSED HARD CONTAINER. (anc: 6/0, child: 8)
  • CONTAINER　ARTEFACT PRODUCED TO CONTAIN THINGS. (anc: 5/0, child: 3)
  • ARTEFACT　THING PRODUCED by MAN. (anc: 4/0, child: 26)

Words (6 items)

籠  lóng OC: b-rooŋ MC: luŋ 6 Attributions

Lóng 籠 is prototypically a bamboo bird cage, and the word also has figurative uses.

    Syntactic words
  • ncage; bird's cage
  • nadVin a cage LIAOZHAI: 籠養之 "rear in a cage"
  • vtoNfigurativeput in a cage> keep trapped
柙  xiá OC: ɡraab MC: ɦɣap 4 Attributions

The xiá 柙 is a strong restrictive cage which may be very large so as to contain even tigers.

    Syntactic words
  • nstrong cage for wild animals (e.g. for tigers, also rhinoceros)
  • vtoNput in a cage
樊  fán OC: ban MC: bi̯ɐn 3 Attributions

Fán 樊 is a rare word referring to a bird's cage of some kind which we can no longer reconstruct.

    Syntactic words
  • naviary; pen
  • NPfigurativethe "cage" of this world; the confines of this world of Heaven-and-EarthCH
笯  nú OC: naa MC: nuo̝ 1 Attribution
    Syntactic words
  • ncage
櫳  lóng OC: b-rooŋ MC: luŋ 0 Attributions
    Syntactic words
  • nP, late: cage
篝  gōu OC: koo MC: ku 0 Attributions
    Syntactic words
  • nbamboo cage