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迎
“to meet; to encounter”
迎 is a surname from Proto-Sino-Tibetan. It is used in Chinese and Japanese.
Chinese and JapaneseWritten in Chinese characters script. In English: Mukafi.
Meaning & origin
What it means
迎 goes back to Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ŋra-k/ŋ, meaning “to meet; to encounter.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ŋra-k/ŋ (“to meet; to encounter”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
迎’s family of names
In Japanese usage, 迎 as a surname can be written in the Roman alphabet as Mukae. In Japanese usage, 迎 as a surname can be written in the Roman alphabet as Mukafe. In Japanese usage, 迎 as a surname can be written in the Roman alphabet as Mukafi.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 4
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 9
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Yingequivalent
- Youngequivalent
- Lingequivalent
- Yongequivalent
- Rongequivalent
- 榮equivalent
- 英equivalent
- 荣equivalent
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People named 迎
- Ch'oe YŏngKorean general (1316 – 1388 )
- You YoungSouth Korean figure skaterborn 2004
- Crown Prince HyomyeongKorean prince (1809–1830)
- Seo YoungSouth Korean actress (1984-)
- Kim YoungSouth Korean golferborn 1980
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