basket, devote oneself, seclude oneself, cage, coop, implied
籠 centers on an enclosing container: a basket, cage, or coop. The abstract senses of devoting or secluding oneself grow from the image of being enclosed or wrapped up in something.
籠 combines 竹 (bamboo) with 龍, which likely contributes the sound. The character originally referred to a bamboo basket or cage.
The top 竹 is bamboo, and the bottom 龍 is a dragon. Picture a dragon trapped inside a bamboo cage: 籠 is a basket or cage made of bamboo.
For ロウ, imagine a low bamboo cage that a dragon cannot escape: low -> ロウ, and the dragon is enclosed inside.
to shut oneself in (e.g. one's room); to be confined in; to seclude oneself; to hide away; to stay inside (one's shell)
basket (shopping, etc.); hamper; cage
fish basket; creel
woven-bamboo pattern
inro; seal case; pill box; medicine case
wicker clothes hamper
garden lantern; hanging lantern
bracer (arm guard used in archery)
inn; tavern; hatago; Edo-period lodging for travellers
cradle
indecent; indelicate; dirty; vulgar; risqué
holding a castle (during a siege); holing up
crude palanquin; street palanquin
breadbasket
Faraday cage
frame for drying or perfuming clothes (oft. made out of bamboo)
paper diorama (made from a woodblock print)
retirement (to a temple of shrine) for prayer
wastebasket
to seclude oneself; to shut oneself away