到
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In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
To get to a place, or to reach a point in time. The place follows directly, with no word for 'at': 到学校 'to get to school'. It also marks an end point, 从九点到五点 'from nine to five', and after another verb it shows success: 找到 'to find'.
Đến, tới một nơi hay một mốc thời gian. Nơi chốn đứng ngay sau, như “đến” trong tiếng Việt: 到学校 (đến trường). Còn chỉ điểm cuối: 从九点到五点 (từ chín giờ đến năm giờ); đứng sau động từ khác thì báo kết quả: 找到 (tìm thấy).
VerbRegister: neutral
Examples
Editorial example (illustrative, not a corpus attestation) — awaiting a native-speaker check
Sources & notes
Hán-Việt bridge batch 064 (2026-11-14). Headword, Traditional form and pinyin checked against CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0) source ↗ · Hán-Việt reading: Unihan kVietnamese source ↗ · No Vietnamese entry is linked as its twin; the Hán-Việt reading is given character by character. Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.
Common questions
What does “到” mean?
To get to a place, or to reach a point in time. The place follows directly, with no word for 'at': 到学校 'to get to school'. It also marks an end point, 从九点到五点 'from nine to five', and after another verb it shows success: 找到 'to find'.
Is “到” formal or informal?
到 is generally neutral.