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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
- —代用語substitute; placeholder
- —場所代venue cost; venue fee
- —守護代acting shugo (Kamakura or Muromachi period military governor)
- —代用魚substitute fish; using an alternative fish variety instead of a traditional one
- —電話代telephone bill; telephone rate
- —代筆者amanuensis
- —代換法hypallage
- —二代目second generation; second; junior
- —冥王代Hadean; Hadean eon
- —水道代water bill
- —ガス代gas bill; gasoline bill; petrol bill
- —代数和algebraic sum
- —現代病modern disease; disease of our time
- —先々代the one before last; two generations, etc. previous
- —全人代National People's Congress (of the People's Republic of China); NPC
- —陰生代Cryptozoic (period)
- —近代語modern Japanese (as spoken since the Middle Ages); Japanese spoken during the Meiji period (sometimes including the late Edo period and/or the Taishō period)
- —パケ代(mobile broadband) data cost
- —手間代payment (for labour); pay; charge; wages
- —代替肉meat substitute; meat analogue; fake meat