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Meanings

CC-CEDICT

  1. 1.to receive (as a guest)

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Wiktionary

  1. 1.to receive; to meet a visitor; to welcome
  2. 2.to hide oneself; to conceal oneself
  3. 3.to avoid; to run away from; to hide from (an obligation, a criticism etc)

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Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *ŋraːs): semantic 辵 (“travel”) + phonetic 牙 (OC *ŋraː). See Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ŋra-k/ŋ (“to meet; to encounter”) (STEDT); cf. 迎 (OC *ŋaŋ, *ŋraŋs).

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