Meaning & readings
welcome, meet, greet
Origin
This character combines a movement component on the left—the radical for going or motion—with a sound hint on the right that suggests the pronunciation. The left side indicates the basic idea of moving toward something, while the right component provides a phonetic clue to how the character is pronounced. Together, they create a character that means to move toward someone, capturing the sense of going out to meet or welcome a person. The visual suggests the physical action of moving forward to greet someone approaching.
AI-generated (claude-haiku-4-5), not yet reviewed. Formation type (automated guess): Phono-semantic (meaning + sound hint).
Components
- 卬
- ⻌
A sound hint component points at the character’s pronunciation, not its meaning — don’t read a meaning into it.
Common words
- 歓迎 かんげい welcome; (warm) reception
- 迎え むかえ meeting; greeting
- 迎撃 げいげき intercept; interception
- 迎合 げいごう ingratiation; pandering
- 送迎 そうげい seeing off and meeting on return
- 迎える むかえる to go out to meet; to receive
- 迎賓館 げいひんかん reception hall (esp. for visiting state dignitaries); guest house
- 出迎え でむかえ (going out and) receiving (someone); (heading out and) meeting
Reference
- Strokes
- 7
- Kangxi radical
- 162
- Grade
- Jōyō (secondary school)
- Frequency rank
- #625 (newspapers)
- Former JLPT
- level 2
- Unicode
- U+08FCE