迎える

Meanings

1. to go out to meet; to receive; to welcome; to greet; to salute; to hail
2. to call for; to summon; to invite
3. to accept (e.g. as a member of a group or family); to take (e.g. a wife)
4. to reach (a certain time, a point in one's life, etc.); to enter (a new phase, new era, etc.); to approach (e.g. death)

Part of speech: ichidan verb, transitive

Kanji

• 迎

  Meanings

  welcome, meet, greet

  On reading

  ゲイ

  Kun reading

  むか.える

  Strokes

  7

Example sentences

• 医者を迎えにやったとき彼が病気になって１週間たっていた。

  He had been ill for a week when they sent for a doctor.

  Tatoeba #190749 · CC BY 2.0 FR

• ６時にホテルに車で迎えて下さい。

  Please pick me up at the hotel at six o'clock.

  Tatoeba #235056 · CC BY 2.0 FR

• 彼をすぐに迎えてやることに決まった。

  It was decided that he should be sent for at once.

  Tatoeba #95959 · CC BY 2.0 FR