箩 (luó): large bamboo or wicker basket

Measure Word

一个箩 gè

Meanings

1 large bamboo or wicker basket
2 sieve basket
3 winnowing basket

Characters

箩

luó

bamboo/wicker basket; sieve basket

Examples

HSK 7-9

农民用箩筐装稻谷。

Nóngmín yòng luókuāng zhuāng dàogǔ.

Farmers use large wicker baskets to hold unhusked rice.

HSK 7-9

她把洗好的菜放进箩里沥水。

Tā bǎ xǐ hǎode cài fàng jìn luó lǐ lì shuǐ.

She put the washed vegetables in a basket to drain.

Tips

memory

箩 is always made of bamboo (竹字头 at the top of 箩). It's a traditional farm tool - a large, shallow basket used for sorting grain or carrying produce.

Components

radical

⺮ zhú

bamboo (radical form)

Bamboo-top radical, the indexing component and the cap form of 竹. Two stylised bamboo-leaf clusters side by side. It places 箩 squarely in the woven-bamboo-object family: 篮 basket, 筐 round basket, 筛 sieve, 箱 box - most large containers in old China were bamboo, hence the dense family.

phonetic

罗 luó

net; to gather; surname Luo

Bottom 罗 luó supplies the sound exactly - same syllable, same tone. It also lends a faint image: 罗 itself originally pictured a bird-net, and a 箩 is a loosely-woven open basket - the same idea of crossed strands forming a catching surface.