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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)
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- N4 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 5
- School grade
- Grade 3 (elementary school)
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Words with 代
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —桃山時代Momoyama period (latter half of the Azuchi-Momoyama period, approx. 1583-1600)
- —日帝時代period of Japanese colonial rule (of Korea; 1910-1945)
- —飛鳥時代Asuka period (550-710 CE)
- —氷河時代ice age; glacial period
- —武家時代feudal period (characterized by the rule of the shogunate, 1185-1867); age of militarist government
- —封建時代feudal era; feudal times; feudal period; feudal age; age of feudalism
- —平安時代Heian period (794-1185)
- —平成時代Heisei period (January 8, 1989-April 30, 2019)
- —万代不易eternity; perpetuity
- —明治時代Meiji period (1868-1912)
- —弥生時代Yayoi period (ca. 300 BCE-300 CE)
- —一世一代once in a lifetime; the first and last occurrence (event, experience) of one's lifetime
- —近代音楽modern music; contemporary music
- —古典時代the classical period
- —譜代大名hereditary daimyo whose ancestors supported Tokugawa Ieyasu prior to the battle of Sekigahara
- —身代限りgoing bankrupt
- —地域代表regional representation
- —地質時代geological age; geological era
- —神代文字jindai moji; forged syllabic characters purported to have been used in ancient Japan
- —近代文学modern literature