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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
- —近代主義modernism
- —近代国家modern state; modern nation
- —時代小説historical novel
- —時代思潮thought of the times
- —時代遅れold-fashioned; behind the times; out-of-date; antiquated
- —時代感覚sensitivity to the times; sense of the times
- —時代精神spirit of the age; zeitgeist
- —幼年時代childhood
- —代用教員substitute teacher
- —代表社員representative partner; senior partner; senior employee empowered to represent a company
- —代理戦争war by proxy; proxy war
- —代替わりtaking over (e.g. store or family's headship); subrogation; substitution of one person for another (usu. a creditor)
- —代数関数algebraic function
- —縄文時代Jōmon period (ca. 14000-1000 BCE)
- —古代裂れancient cloth fragment
- —三岐代表representative of Gifu and Mie prefectures
- —時代の弊abuses of the times
- —現代英語contemporary English; present-day English; current English
- —古墳時代Kofun period (of Japanese history, 250-538 CE); Tumulus period
- —時代考証background research; research into the period