逮
dǎidài HSK7

seize

逮 dǎi frequency
catch verb
(coll.) to catch; to seize; to capture

猫终于把那只偷吃粮食的耗子逮了。

māo zhōng​yú bǎ nà zhī tōu​chī liáng​shi de hào​zi dǎi le.

The cat finally caught the mouse that was stealing the grain.

逮 dài
arrest verb
to seize, capture, or take into custody

他因为触犯了法律，早晚会被警察逮进去的。

tā yīn​wèi chù​fàn le fǎ​lǜ, zǎo​wǎn huì bèi jǐng​chá dài jìn​qù de.

He will be caught by the police sooner or later for breaking the law.

reach verb
to reach or extend to a certain point in time or space (literary)

逮至清末，局势已然大变。

dài zhì Qīng​mò, jú​shì yǐ​rán dà biàn.

By the end of the Qing Dynasty, the situation had already changed drastically.

Frequency
Character
Written text
2,216th most common 28.0 per million
Movie subtitles
1,218th most common 69.3 per million appears in 27% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
28.4 per million appears in 11% of films
Written text
4.81 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Strokes
11
Unicode
U+902E

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)