迎 — Chinese character
迎
yíng
to welcome, to receive, to greet
- Pinyin
- yíng
- Radical
- 162 ⾡ (Walk)
- Strokes
- 8
- Components
- 辶 卬
- Formation
- pictophonetic — walk; meaning component 辶; sound component 卬
- Japanese
- 迎 as a kanji
Common words with 迎
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 欢迎 (歡迎) | huān yíng | to welcome; welcome |
| 迎接 | yíng jiē | to welcome; to greet |
| 受欢迎 (受歡迎) | shòu huān yíng | to be popular; to be well-liked; to be warmly received |
| 迎来 (迎來) | yíng lái | to welcome (a visitor or newcomer); (fig.) to usher in |
| 迎战 (迎戰) | yíng zhàn | to meet the enemy head-on |
| 迎合 | yíng hé | to cater to; to pander to |
| 迎面 | yíng miàn | directly; head-on (collision); (of wind) in one's face |
| 迎娶 | yíng qǔ | (of a groom) to fetch one's bride from her parents' home to escort her to the wedding ceremony; (fig.) to take as one's wife; to marry (a woman) |
| 迎刃而解 | yíng rèn ér jiě | lit. (bamboo) splits when it meets the knife's edge (idiom); fig. easily solved |
| 迎宾 (迎賓) | yíng bīn | to welcome a guest; to entertain a customer (of prostitute) |
| 迎击 (迎擊) | yíng jī | to face an attack; to repulse the enemy |
| 欢迎光临 (歡迎光臨) | huān yíng guāng lín | Welcome! (used by staff to greet customers when they enter a shop or restaurant) |
English words written with 迎
迎 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Tao Te Ching 1 · Art of War 5 · Mencius 10 · Zhuangzi 8 · Doctrine of the Mean 1
- Tao Te Ching Chapter 14
- Art of War 9.4
- Art of War 9.5
- Art of War 9.6
- Art of War 9.16
- Art of War 9.39
- Mencius 1B.10
- Mencius 1B.11
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.