U+8FCE "迎" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
迎
U+8FCE "迎" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) that primarily means "to welcome," "to greet," or "to meet." It is composed of the radical for movement or walking (辶) on the left, combined with the phonetic component 卬 (which indicates pronunciation), and it carries cultural significance in East Asian languages including Japanese and Korean, where it appears in words like "kangei" (welcome) and "yeong" (迎接, reception). This character is frequently used in everyday contexts such as greeting guests, welcoming the new year, or in commercial signage for hospitality.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8FCE |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| Block | CJK Unified Ideographs |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 迎 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 迎 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0xBF 0x8E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8FCE |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008FCE |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8fce |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | AAEF |
| kCCCII | 215B6A |
| kCNS1986 | 1-4F52 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-4F52 |
| kCangjie | YHVL |
| kCantonese | jing4 |
| kCihaiT | 1312.501 |
| kCowles | 5233 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1736.130 |
| kDefinition | receive, welcome, greet |
| kEACC | 215B6A |
| kFanqie | 語京 魚敬 |
| kFenn | 308B |
| kFennIndex | 633.10 |
| kFourCornerCode | 3730.2 |
| kGB0 | 5113 |
| kGB1 | 5113 |
| kGradeLevel | 2 |
| kGSR | 0699d |
| kHangul | 영:0E |
| kHanYu | 63821.090 |
| kHanyuPinlu | yíng(135) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 63821.090:yíng,yìng |
| kHKGlyph | 4083 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1736.130 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 63821.090 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1254.030 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-532D |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-AAEF |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-375E |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-F9C7 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-674A |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-4F52 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-6928 |
| kJapanese | ゲイ ギョウ むかえる |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kTGH | 2013:822 |
| kJapaneseKun | MUKAERU |
| kJapaneseOn | GEI |
| kJis0 | 2362 |
| kKangXi | 1254.030 |
| kKarlgren | 5 |
| kKorean | YENG |
| kLau | 3494 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 6601 |
| kMandarin | yíng |
| kMatthews | 7473 |
| kMeyerWempe | 3917 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ025793 MJ025793:E0102 MJ025794:E0103 |
| kMorohashi | 38748' 38748':E0102 38748:E0103 |
| kNelson | 4669 |
| kPhonetic | 974 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+1844+162.3.4 V+13742+162.4.4 |
| kRSUnicode | 162.4 |
| kSBGY | 187.22 430.19 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 692.11 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | yíng粵jing4 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 6601 |
| kTang | *ngiæng |
| kTGHZ2013 | 439.150:yíng |
| kTotalStrokes | 7 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | nghênh |
| kXerox | 245:263 |
| kXHC1983 | 1387.080:yíng |