迎え
むかえ · mukae · JLPT N3 · noun
meeting
🚗👋 mukae sounds like moo-car: the car sent to collect you at arrivals
迎え is the noun form of 迎える (mukaeru, to welcome or go meet). The kanji 迎 carries the 辶 movement radical, so it means going out to meet someone. お迎え is the everyday word for a school or station pickup.
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'.