zimai字脈
LookupMandarin · 繁體 · English
Mandarin–English · CC-CEDICTSources ↗
DICTIONARY · CC-CEDICT

籠鳥檻猿

简 笼鸟槛猿 · 繁 籠鳥檻猿
Mandarin · pinyin lóng niǎo jiàn yuán

Meanings

  1. bird in a basket, monkey in a cage (idiom); prisoner
Full entryShow on map

Characters in this entry

籠
Look up this written character
鳥
niǎo · bird; Kangxi radical 196
檻
Look up this written character
猿
yuán · ape
笼
lóng · cage; cage-like basket
鸟
niǎo · bird; Kangxi radical 196
槛
kǎn · threshold, door-sill
Written characters and their own readings; the entry’s pronunciation is shown above.

Explore the spelling

Entries containing 籠鳥檻猿 ↗Words written with 籠 ↗Words written with 鳥 ↗Words written with 檻 ↗Words written with 猿 ↗Words written with 笼 ↗Words written with 鸟 ↗Words written with 槛 ↗

Mandarin tones

2–3–4–2 · long2 niao3 jian4 yuan2

Compare attested words with these syllables ↗

Dictionary tones. Connected speech can change their realization.

Connected dictionary

5character links
Explore word families ↗Compare pronunciations ↗Open character structure ↗
Counts describe dictionary records, not word frequency or semantic similarity. Source identities stay separate.
Compare dictionary sources 1 Cantonese reading

lung4 niu5 haam5 jyun4

Pleco · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Word reading; meanings not aligned.