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

农民用箩筐装稻谷。

Nóngmín yòng luókuāng zhuāng dàogǔ.

Farmers use large wicker baskets to hold unhusked rice.

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.