lit. to meet those arriving, to send of those departing (idiom); busy entertaining guests; all time taken over with social niceties
trad. 迎來送往
Also written 迎來送往【yíng lái sòng wǎng】
Characters in this word
4迎
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0
to welcome; to meet, to forge ahead (esp. in the face of difficulties); to meet face to face
- Pinyin
- yíng
- Strokes
- 7
- Frequency
- 24519 of 2500
来
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to come, (used as a substitute for a more specific verb), hither (directional complement for motion toward the speaker, as in 回來|回来[hui2 lai5]), ever since (as in 自古以來|自古以来[zi4 gu3 yi3 lai2]), for the past (amount of time), (prefix) the coming ...; the next ... (as in 來世|来世[lai2 shi4]), (between two verbs) in order to, (after a round number) approximately, (used after 得[de2] to indicate possibility, as in 談得來|谈得来[tan2 de5 lai2], or after 不[bu4] to indicate impossibility, as in 吃不來|吃不来[chi1 bu5 lai2])
- Pinyin
- lái
- Traditional
- 來
- Strokes
- 7
- Frequency
- 33 of 2500
送
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to send; to deliver; to transmit, to give (as a present), to see (sb) off, to accompany; to go along with
- Pinyin
- sòng
- Strokes
- 9
- Frequency
- 387 of 2500
往
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to go (in a direction), to, towards, (of a train) bound for, past, previous
- Pinyin
- wǎng
- Strokes
- 8
- Frequency
- 1074 of 2500