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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
- —代入文assignment statement
- —異世代intergenerational; of different generations
- —同世代same generation; one's generation
- —歴代志The Chronicles (books of the Bible)
- —近現代the modern era; present day
- —代当主the n-th generation head of a family
- —万代草houseleek (any plant species of genus Sempervivum)
- —代表所representative office (e.g. diplomatic)
- —現代戦modern warfare
- —現代文contemporary writing; modern text; modern Japanese writing; modern Japanese (as a school subject); literature written since the Meiji period
- —新世代new-generation
- —世代間intergenerational
- —顕生代Phanerozoic
- —代替機substitute device; replacement aircraft
- —古代米ancient rice varieties; wild rice
- —近代人modern man; modern person; modernist
- —現代風modern style; modernness
- —代表性representativeness; (level of) representation
- —上代語ancient language; ancient word; Old Japanese; Japanese as spoken from the end of the 6th century to the end of the Nara period
- —残業代overtime pay; overtime money; overtime payment