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逮

dǎi, dài

seize

Phonosemantic compound. Both 辶 (movement) and 隶 (seize) represent the meaning, 隶 represents the sound.

Components
辶 meaning component

辶  Meaning component

chuò

  

walk

隶 sound,meaning component

隶  Sound Meaning component

dài, lì

  

subservient

Evolution

逮 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
逮 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
逮 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

逮  

dǎi

seize, catch; reach, arrive; (coll.) to catch; to seize

逮  

dài

(literary) to arrest; to overtake; until

Most common words with 逮
Freq.
Word
Meaning

逮捕

to arrest

逮

to seize

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*m-rˤəp-s

dojH

dài

reach to


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 26.5738% of movies

1218th most common character in movies

2216th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Unicode

U+902E

Shuowen

“逮，唐逮，及也。从辵，隶聲。”


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