EntryCommonJLPT N4WaniKani 32
  1. Ichidan verb, Transitive verb

    to go out to meet; to receive; to welcome; to greet; to salute; to hail

    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.
  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)

Also written 邀える【むかえる】

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Characters in this word

1
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

welcome, meet, greet

Kun
むか.える
On
ゲイ
Strokes
7
Taught
Junior high
JLPT
N3
Frequency
625 of 2500
Radical
walk
WaniKani
Level 32

Built from

Used in names as

むかえ

Dictionary and index codes (30)
CodeReference
3-3-4SKIP code
2q4.4The Kanji Dictionary
3730.2Four corner code
2644deroo
8fceUnicode hex code
1-23-62JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
4669Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
6019New Nelson (John Haig)
3059New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3796Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1939Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2632Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1702Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1837Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
726A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
746Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1062Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
38748PMorohashi
1207A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1055Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1098Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
949Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1145Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1133Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
680Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1717Les Kanjis dans la tête (Yves Maniette)
ying2Pinyin reading
yeongKorean reading
n3JLPT level (KANJIDIC2)
32WaniKani level