歓迎
かんげい · kangei · JLPT N3 · noun
welcome
🎉💐 歓迎 = joy + greet: a joyful greeting is a welcome
歓 means delight, as in 歓喜 (kanki, rapture). 迎 means to meet or greet, as in 迎える (mukaeru, to go and meet someone). So joy + greeting gives welcome, as in 歓迎会 (kangeikai), a welcome party.
迎 — walk radical 辶 + 卬 (phonetic)
迎 is a phono-semantic compound: 辶 (walk/movement) gives the meaning of going toward someone, while 卬 supplies the sound (close to yíng). 卬 originally depicted a person looking up, reinforcing the idea of facing or greeting. Together the character means 'to welcome' or 'meet'.