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Keyword
welcome
  • meet
  • greet
Frequency
#625
Strokes
7
Grade
8
JLPT (old)
N2
Heisig
1837
Readings
ゲイ55%
むか45%
Mnemonic
Grandma stands on the road waving a giant spoon, her crooked seal stamped on every jar she sends home; nobody gets a warmer welcome than you.
Stroke order
Composed of
Used in vocabulary
迎むかえ
meeting; greeting; welcome; person sent to meet a visitor
Noun
歓かん迎げい
welcome; (warm) reception
Noun
迎むかえる
to go out to meet; to receive; to welcome; to greet; to salute; to hail; to call for; to summon; to invite; to accept (e.g. as a member of a group or family); …
Ichidan verb
迎げい賓ひん館かん
reception hall (esp. for visiting state dignitaries); guest house; State Guest House (esp. Akasaka palace, also guest house in Kyoto)
Noun
大だい歓かん迎げい
big welcome; welcoming greatly; being very welcome
Noun
出で迎むかえ
(going out and) receiving (someone); (heading out and) meeting; picking up; welcoming
Noun
迎げい撃げき
intercept; interception; counter-attack
Noun
出で迎むかえる
to meet; to greet
Ichidan verb
送そう迎げい
seeing off and meeting on return
Noun
お迎むかえ
receiving; welcoming; going to meet; person sent to meet or pick up someone; final call; call of fate; approach of death
Noun
迎むかえ撃うつ
to meet (the enemy) and attack; to engage (the approaching enemy); to confront; to intercept
Godan verb
迎むかえ入いれる
to show in; to usher in
Ichidan verb
送おくり迎むかえ
seeing someone off and later welcoming them back; taking someone to and fro
Noun
迎げい合ごう
ingratiation; pandering; catering (to); going along with (someone or something); accommodating oneself (e.g. to public opinion)
Noun
迎あ合ど
deuteragonist; secondary actor
Noun
来迎らいごう
coming of Amida Buddha to welcome the spirit of the dead
Noun
迎げい春しゅん
New Year's greetings
Noun
迎むかい
meeting; greeting; welcome
Noun
迎むかえ火び
welcoming fire for returning spirits (on the first night of the Bon festival)
Noun
迎げい賓ひん
welcoming honored guests (esp. from overseas)
Noun
迎げい車しゃ
taxi en route to a customer
Noun
迎むかえ酒ざけ
hair of the dog; morning drink to get rid of a hangover
Noun