迎面

Mandarin · pinyin yíng miàn

Meanings

  1. directly; head-on (collision)
  2. (of wind) in one's face
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迎
yíng · receive, welcome, greet
面
miàn · face; surface; plane; side, dimension; Kangxi radical 176
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2–4 · ying2 mian4

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

jing4 min6

Cantonese word readings for 迎面. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.

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adv

  1. head-on; in one's face

noun

  1. opposite

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