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迎

Welcome
Stroke count: 7

Readings

On readingゲイ
Kun readingむか.える

Verbs with «迎»

迎える歓迎するお迎えする

Meanings

  1. welcomeRtK
    彼は出かけた先々で歓迎された。He was welcomed wherever he went.tatoeba
    彼は至る所で歓迎された。He was welcomed everywhere.tatoeba
  2. greet
  3. meet
    彼は先生を迎えに走っていった。He ran off to meet his teacher.tatoeba
  1. to go out to meet
  2. to receive
  3. to welcome
  4. to greet
  5. to salute

Popular Usage

迎える歓迎

Radicals and components

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Mnemonic (RtK)

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stamp album · box (口) · stamps · road (辶)

From "Remembering the Kanji" by James Heisig · Frame 1837

Compound words

迎えるむかえる
to go out to meet; to receive; to welcome; to greet; to salute
歓迎かんげい
welcome; (warm) reception
迎えむかえ
meeting; greeting; welcome; person sent to meet a visitor
迎撃げいげき
intercept; interception; counter-attack
迎合げいごう
ingratiation; pandering; catering (to); going along with (someone or something); accommodating oneself (e.g. to public opinion)
送迎そうげい
seeing off and meeting on return
迎賓館げいひんかん
reception hall (esp. for visiting state dignitaries); guest house; State Guest House (esp. Akasaka palace, also guest house in Kyoto)
出迎えでむかえ
meeting; reception
大歓迎だいかんげい
big welcome; welcoming greatly; being very welcome
迎え撃つむかえうつ
to meet (the enemy) and attack; to engage (the approaching enemy); to confront; to intercept
出迎えるでむかえる
to meet; to greet
迎春げいしゅん
New Year's greeting, welcoming the new year
歓迎会かんげいかい
welcome party
迎撃つむかえうつ
to meet (the enemy) and attack
阿諛迎合あゆげいごう
ingratiation
歓送迎会かんそうげいかい
party to welcome (e.g. new employees) and send off (e.g. retiring employees)
迎えうつむかえうつ
to meet (the enemy) and attack
迎え打つむかえうつ
to meet (the enemy) and attack
迎え討つむかえうつ
to meet (the enemy) and attack
歓迎するかんげいする
to welcome
迎え入れるむかえいれる
to welcome in, to usher in
お迎えするおむかえする
to welcome; to meet (humble)
あの党はいつも中流階級に迎合しています。げいごう
That party is always pandering to the middle class.tatoeba
彼は心から彼女を迎えた。
He greeted her with cordiality.tatoeba
陸軍中佐で終戦を迎える。
The War finished while he was an Army Commander.wiki
平成元年 創業三百年を迎える。
1989: They celebrated their tricentennial anniversary.wiki

Real voices: how native speakers say it

These sentences were read aloud by real people — native Japanese speakers — for the open Mozilla Common Voice project. Listen to how a phrase sounds in real speech: the intonation, the pace, the way words run together. Two speakers mean two different people read it — compare them.

家に帰ると猫が迎えてくれた。
いえにかえるとねこがむかえてくれた。When I got home, the cat came to greet me.
またヘリで迎えに来てもらえばいい
またへりでむかえにきてもらえばいいWe could just have him pick us up by helicopter again.
しばらくして泣いたら書生がまた迎えに来てくれるかと考え付いた
しばらくしてないたらしょせいがまたむかえにきてくれるかとかんがえついたAfter a while it occurred to me that if I cried, the student might come back for me.

Recordings and sentences: Mozilla Common Voice, CC0

Stroke Order

7 strokes

Welcome, greet. ⻌ (movement) + 卬 (look up) — going out to meet someone. 歓迎 — welcome.

Practice Writing

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