迨 (dài) · until; by the time that (classical)

Meanings

HSK 7-9

迨诸父异爨，庭院已几经变迁。

Dài zhū fù yì cuàn, tíngyuàn yǐ jǐjīng biànqiān.

By the time the uncles set up separate kitchens, the courtyard had changed many times over.

history

Not used in modern speech; the everyday equivalent is 等到 or 到. It is a classical conjunction famous from Gui Youguang's essay phrase 迨诸父异爨.

register

Classical literary only - found in essays and old prose, not in modern conversation.

radical

辶 chuò

to walk; movement

The walk radical 辶, written last, is the running form of 辵 (to go); it suggests reaching or arriving at a point in time - 'until'.

phonetic

台 tái

platform; here phonetic

The inner 台 gives the sound; its reading drifted from tái to dài, a typical shift in this phonetic series.

迨 dài