牢笼

Traditional form:

牢籠

Pinyin (reading):

láolóng

Definitions:

• cage
• trap (e.g. basket, pit or snare for catching animals)
• fig. bonds (of wrong ideas)
• shackles (of past misconceptions)
• to trap
• to shackle

Characters:

• 牢 - pen, prison, stable; fast, firm, secure
• 笼 - basket; cage; bamboo basket used to serve dimsum

Traditional characters:

• 牢 - pen, prison, stable; fast, firm, secure
• 籠 - basket; cage; bamboo basket used to serve dimsum