柙

xiá
  1. cage
  2. pen
  3. scabbard

CEDICT

  1. Same as 匣 (xiá).
  2. cage
  3. pen for wild animals

Wiktionary

  1. 关兽畜的槛笼。
  2. 箱子。
  3. 将犯人关在囚车押送。

重編國語辭典

Related entries

牢笼 láolóng
  1. cage
  2. trap (e.g. basket, pit or snare for catching animals)
  3. fig. bonds (of wrong ideas)
  4. shackles (of past misconceptions)
  5. to trap
  6. to shackle
人获得自由，究竟意味着什么？难道就是从一个牢笼里巧妙地逃出来，其实只是置身于另一个更大的牢笼。

What does obtaining freedom really mean? It may seem like cleverly escaping out of a cage, but one just ends up in another bigger cage.

Source: Tatoeba

笼槛 lóngjiàn cage (for animals)
栏圈 lánquān
  1. pen
  2. animal yard
笔杆子 bǐgǎnzi
  1. pen
  2. an effective writer
笔杆 bǐgǎn
  1. the shaft of a pen or writing brush
  2. (metonym) pen (as in 耍笔杆 shuǎbǐgǎn and 摇笔杆 yáobǐgǎn)
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