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U+8FCE, 迎
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8FCE

[U+8FCD]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+8FCF]

Translingual

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Han character

(Kangxi radical 162, +4, 8 strokes in traditional Chinese and Korean, 7 strokes in mainland China and Japanese, cangjie input 卜竹女中 (YHVL), four-corner 37302, composition )

Derived characters

  • 𠶐, 𭪧, 𫤏, 𨓑, 𥈁

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1254, character 3
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 38748
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1736, character 13
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3821, character 9
  • Unihan data for U+8FCE
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Chinese

Glyph origin

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Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ŋaŋ, *ŋraŋs): semantic + phonetic (OC *ŋaːŋ, *ŋaŋʔ).

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ŋra-k/ŋ (to meet; to encounter). Cognate with Burmese ငြင်း (ngrang:, to refuse to obey; to argue). Within Chinese, it is related to:

  • (OC *ŋaʔ, *ŋas, “to defend”)
  • (OC *ŋaːs, “to meet; to go against”)
  • (OC *ŋraːs, “to receive; to defend”)
  • (OC *sŋaːɡs, “to go upstream”)
  • (OC *ŋraɡ, “to greet; to go against; to resist”)

Pronunciation 1

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Note:
  • ngiàng - vernacular (“to parade through the streets; to become dry; to stick up”);
  • ngìng - literary (“to welcome, to meet; to face; to flatter”).

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Definitions

  1. to receive; to welcome; to greet; to meet
       huānyíng   welcome
  2. to flatter; to ingratiate with
  3. to face; to go against; to do something in face of ...; to forge ahead
       yíngzhe fēng pǎo   to run against the wind
  4. (obsolete) to predict; to forecast
  5. (Min) to escort (a god, hero etc.) through the streets; to parade through the streets
  6. (Puxian Min) to carry on hands or shoulders
  7. (Eastern Min, of food) to become dry (due to exposure to the wind)
  8. (Eastern Min, of hair) to stick up; to become erect
  9. a surname
Usage notes

In the sense to face, often followed by (zhe).

Synonyms
  • (to face):

Compounds

Pronunciation 2

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Definitions

  1. (obsolete) to prepare to greet a guest before their arrival
  2. 42nd tetragram of the Taixuanjing (𝌯)

Compounds

  • 親迎 / 亲迎
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