籠

かご · kago · JLPT N3 · noun

cage

籠 — cage

🧺 籠 = 竹 bamboo + 龍 dragon: a bamboo basket strong enough to hold a dragon

The 竹 radical on top marks things woven from bamboo, as baskets and cages traditionally were. The reading kago sounds like cargo, and a kago is what you carry your cargo in.

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