Character: 迎
Modern (Beijing) reading: yíng
Preclassic Old Chinese: ŋraŋ
Classic Old Chinese: ŋraŋ
Western Han Chinese: ŋraŋ
Eastern Han Chinese: ŋreŋ
Early Postclassic Chinese: ŋeŋ
Middle Postclassic Chinese: ŋeŋ
Late Postclassic Chinese: ŋeŋ
Middle Chinese: ŋäiŋ
English meaning : to go to meet
Russian meaning[s]: 1) встретить; выходить навстречу; приветствовать; 2) идти навстречу; подлаживаться
Comments: Also read *ŋraŋ-s, MC ŋä̀iŋ, Mand. yìng id. (this is the traditional reading in Shijing; the 平聲 reading is considered to be attested only since Late Zhou - for a reason which is not quite clear). Viet. nghinh is colloquial; standard Sino-Viet. is nghênh. For *ŋ cf. Xiamen ŋia2, Chaozhou ŋeŋ2, Fuzhou ŋiŋ2, Jianou ŋiaŋ2.
Radical: 162
Four-angle index: 6491
Karlgren code: 0699 d
Vietnamese reading: nghinh
