(yíng) - to welcome, to meet (bound morpheme) in Mandarin
yíngTraditional: 迎
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Translation
to welcome, to meet (bound morpheme)
Word origin
A phono-semantic compound: the movement radical 辶 signals going to meet someone, while 卬 (áng) supplies the sound, hence to welcome or to receive.
- Origin
- phono-semantic
- Root
- 辶 (movement radical) + 卬 (áng, phonetic)
Stroke order
迎
Examples
！
Welcome to China!
。
We welcome all guests.
，。
Welcome, please come in.
口。
We welcomed our friend at the door.
。
She smiled and went forward to greet them.
迎 (yíng) means to welcome or to meet someone arriving. It is a bound morpheme and is most commonly seen in 欢迎 (huān yíng), to welcome.
Appears in 1 word
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 迎.
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