How to say "hamper" in Japanese

• かごJLPT N3approx.Common
  nounCovers the noun 'hamper': a container such as a picnic, laundry, or shopping hamper. Here it is simply one sense of the everyday word for 'basket' or 'cage', written in kana alone.
  そのかごはリンゴでいっぱいだった。↗

  The basket was full of apples.
• 殺すころすJLPT N3approx.Common
  godan verb, transitive verbCovers the verb sense 'to hamper', as in suppressing or blocking something such as talent or growth. This is an extended use of a word whose basic meaning is 'to kill', so it is often not the first choice for plain 'hamper'.

Use 「かご」 for the noun 'hamper' (a woven basket, e.g. for shopping or laundry); use 「殺す」 only for the verb sense of hampering or suppressing something, where it usually means to kill or stifle.

Usage comparisons are AI-assisted and cross-checked by multiple models; for study reference only

• かごbasket (shopping, etc.)
• 拘束具こうそくぐphysical restraint
• 殺すころすto suppress
• 水を差すみずをさすto hinder
• 水をかけるみずをかけるto hinder