音読み: ゲイ
訓読み: むかえる
画数: 7
部首: 辶（しんにょう）
Meaning
Welcome / receive / meet.
- Basic forms
- 迎える — welcome; receive;迎え入れる / base form
- 迎えます — welcomes; receives / masu form
- 迎えた — welcomed; received / ta form
- 迎えて — welcoming … / te form
- 迎えない — do not welcome / negative
- 迎えれば — if (one) welcomes / conditional
- Common expressions
- 客を迎える — welcome a guest
- 新年を迎える — welcome the New Year
- 最終日を迎えた — reached the final day
- More
- 新時代を迎えた — entered a new era / result
迎える（むかえる） is an ichidan transitive verb. It is used both literally — welcoming people or guests — and figuratively, for reaching a time, stage, or turning point such as a new year, era, or important moment.
- 迎える — to welcome; to meet; to greet
- 出迎える — to go out to meet; to greet someone
- 歓迎 — welcome; reception
- 送迎 — seeing off and meeting; shuttle service
- 迎賓館 — state guest house
The radical しんにょう (辶) shows movement or a path. Combined with the phonetic component 卬 (to raise one’s head), the character conveys the sense of “going out to meet” or “receiving someone as they arrive.”