wax-resist border
To the door, until the door.
까지 touches a boundary and makes it exact. The wash may darken the room, but the line keeps its dry silence.
01 / place
The Edge That Arrives
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까지/まで
A drop travels through hanji until wax says no farther. Place becomes grammar at the surface of resistance: 문까지, to the door and not beyond.
문까지
02 / limit
まで
ここまで
03 / time
stitched measuring cord
아침까지
Until morning is not a road. It is light filling the room until the cord catches it, a patient edge in time.
夜明け
まで
まで
아침까지
04 / even
sand ridge & moon fold
끝까지, even to the edge.
The particle can lean into emphasis: all the way, right up to the carved mark. Sand pours, tide breathes, shadow crosses only to the fold.
際
끝까지
ceramic glaze horizon
Where endings keep their shape.
까지 and まで meet inside one imperfect seal. They overlap, but do not dissolve. The boundary remains readable.
까지までuntil
여기까지