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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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かわるかわるかわりかわり-がわり-がわりかえるよしろ
Words with 代
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —総代会general meeting of representatives (in incorporated associations)
- —代替案alternative plan; alternate proposal; counterplan; counterproposal
- —タク代taxi fare
- —当代一best of one's time; greatest of the age; peerless; unmatched
- —代議院house of representatives; legislative assembly; chamber of deputies
- —先代萩Sendaihagi
- —代官所magistrate's office (Edo period); territory under a magistrate's jurisdiction
- —前近代premodern times; premodern era
- —暗黒時代Dark Ages; dark age
- —画時代的epoch-making
- —鎌倉時代Kamakura period (1185-1333)
- —近代科学modern science
- —原始時代primitive times
- —原子時代atomic age
- —現代科学present-day science; modern science
- —現代文明modern civilization; modern civilisation
- —古代文明ancient civilization; ancient civilisation
- —三百代言pettifogging lawyer; unscrupulous or unethical lawyer; shyster; casuist; sophist
- —昭和時代Shōwa period (1926-1989); Showa period
- —人代名詞personal pronoun