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代 kanji
substitute, change, convert, replace, period, age, counter for decades of ages, eras, etc., generation, charge, rate, fee
- JLPT level
- N4 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N4 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 5
- School grade
- Grade 3 (elementary school)
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Words with 代
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —代表団delegation
- —代表部diplomatic mission
- —代表例representative example
- —代弁者spokesperson; speaker (for someone); mouthpiece; voice (e.g. for the ordinary citizen)
- —代用食substitute food
- —代用肉meat substitute; meat analogue; cheaper meat used in place of beef or pork
- —代用品substitute
- —代理業agency
- —代理権agency; (attorney's) authority of representation
- —代理者proxy; agent; substitute; deputy; alternate; representative; attorney
- —代理部mail-order department; branch store
- —電気代electricity bill; electric bill
- —年代記annals; chronicle; chronology
- —年代順chronological order
- —部屋代room rent
- —歴代史chronicles; annals
- —代替品substitute article; back-up
- —中生代Mesozoic era
- —時代相phases of the age (times)
- —新生代Cenozoic era