yíng
receive
Phonosemantic compound. 辶 represents the meaning and 卬 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
yíng
receive, welcome, greet; to welcome; to meet; to face; to forge ahead (esp. in the face of difficulties)
Most common words with 迎
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
to welcome | ||
to meet | ||
to meet | ||
to meet the enemy head-on | ||
to cater to |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*ŋ<r>aŋ | ngjaeng | yíng | go to meet |
*ŋ<r>aŋ-s | ngjaengH | yìng | go to meet |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 55.4861% of movies
654th most common character in movies
1069th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 7 |
Unicode | U+8FCE |
Shuowen | “迎，逢也。从辵，卬聲。” |
Sources
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