expression, kuru verb (irregular)
come to meet; come to pick up
Used when someone comes to a place to meet or collect a person. The subject is the person who comes.
駅まで迎えに来てくれますか。
Will you come to pick me up at the station?
友達が空港に迎えに来た。
My friend came to meet me at the airport.
Standard kanji-kana spelling.
Kana spelling of the verb part; common in casual writing.
迎えに行く means 'to go to meet/pick up', focusing on the speaker's or subject's movement toward the person. 迎えに来る focuses on the person coming to the speaker's location.
Compound of 迎え (noun form of 迎える 'to meet') + に (particle) + 来る 'to come'.