迎

Stroke order

迎 (Kangxi radical 162, 辵+4, 8 strokes in traditional Chinese and Korean, 7 strokes in mainland China and Japanese, cangjie input 卜竹女中 (YHVL), four-corner 3730₂, composition ⿺辶卬)

• 𠶐, 𭪧, 𫤏, 𨓑, 𥈁

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

Historical forms of the character 迎
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ŋaŋ, *ŋraŋs) : semantic 辶 + phonetic 卬 (OC *ŋaːŋ, *ŋaŋʔ).

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ŋra-k/ŋ (“to meet; to encounter”). Cognate with Burmese ငြင်း (ngrang:, “to refuse to obey; to argue”). Within Chinese, it is related to:

• 禦 (OC *ŋaʔ, *ŋas, “to defend”)
• 迕 (OC *ŋaːs, “to meet; to go against”)
• 迓 (OC *ŋraːs, “to receive; to defend”)
• 溯 (OC *sŋaːɡs, “to go upstream”)
• 逆 (OC *ŋraɡ, “to greet; to go against; to resist”)

迎

1. to receive; to welcome; to greet; to meet

   歡迎／欢迎  ―  huānyíng  ―  welcome

2. to flatter; to ingratiate with
3. to face; to go against; to do something in face of ...; to forge ahead

   迎著風跑／迎著风跑  ―  yíngzhe fēng pǎo  ―  to run against the wind

4. (obsolete) to predict; to forecast
5. (Min) to escort (a god, hero etc.) through the streets; to parade through the streets
6. (Eastern Min, of food) to become dry (due to exposure to the wind)
7. (Eastern Min, of hair) to stick up; to become erect
8. a surname

In the sense to face, often followed by 著／着 (zhe).

• (to face):

迎

1. (obsolete) to prepare to greet a guest before their arrival
2. 42nd tetragram of the Taixuanjing (𝌯)

Shinjitai	迎
Kyūjitai [1]	迎󠄁 迎+󠄁? (Adobe-Japan1)
	迎󠄃 迎+󠄃? (Hanyo-Denshi) (Moji_Joho)
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(Jōyō kanji)

1. welcome
2. to meet
3. to greet

• Go-on: ぎょう (gyō)
• Kan-on: げい (gei, Jōyō)
• Kun: むかえる (mukaeru, 迎える, Jōyō)、むかえ (mukae, 迎え)

迎(むかえ) or 迎(むかい) • (Mukae or Mukai) 

1. a surname

迎 (eumhun 맞을 영 (majeul yeong))

1. hanja form^? of 영 (“to meet; to greet; welcome”)

迎: Hán Nôm readings: nghênh, nghinh, ngảnh, nghểnh, nghiêng, nginh

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