迎

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 辶 + phonetic 卬.

Han character

迎 (radical 162 辵+4, 8 strokes, cangjie input 卜竹女中 (YHVL), four-corner 3730₂, composition ⿺⻌卬)

1. receive, welcome, greet

References

• KangXi: page 1254, character 3
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 38748
• Dae Jaweon: page 1736, character 13
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3821, character 9
• Unihan data for U+8FCE

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Cantonese

Hanzi

迎 (Yale ying4)

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Japanese

Kanji

迎 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: げい (gei)
• Kun: むかえる (mukaeru)

Proper noun

迎 (hiragana むかえ, romaji Mukae)

1. A surname​.

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Korean

Hanja

迎 (hangeul 영, revised yeong, McCune-Reischauer yŏng, Yale yeng)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

迎 (pinyin yíng (ying2), yìng (ying4), Wade-Giles ying², ying⁴)

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Vietnamese

Han character

迎 (nghênh, ngảnh, nghểnh, nghiêng, nginh)