xuán​tà

to extend a warm welcome

Senses

悬榻/ 懸榻 xuán​tà to extend a warm welcome

(literary) to treat a talented or worthy guest with great hospitality; originally refers to a story from the "Book of the Later Han" where the official Chen Fan kept a special seat specifically for Xu Zhi, which he would hang up on the wall whenever Xu was not visiting

References

same_as 悬榻/懸榻 悬床/懸床