Kanji1 / 5
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)
On readings
ダイタイ
Kun readings
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
- —代人Popularsubstitute; deputy; proxy; representative; agent
- —代打Popularpinch-hitting; pinch hitter; performing a duty in place of someone else; proxy
- —代役Popularsubstitute (actor); stand-in; fill-in; understudy; double
- —歴代Popularsuccessive generations; successive emperors
- —代替Popularsubstitution; alternative; substitute
- —代々Popularfor generations; from generation to generation; generation after generation; through the ages
- —三代Popularthree generations; three periods; third generation
- —代目Popularnth generation; nth (person to occupy a position, e.g. president)
- —近代的Popularmodern
- —時代劇Popularhistorical play; period drama
- —代議士Popularparliamentarian; member of a congress
- —代表作Popularmost important work (of a writer, artist, etc.); representative work; masterpiece; magnum opus; major work
- —代表的Popularrepresentative; exemplary; model
- —代理人Popularproxy; agent; substitute; deputy; alternate; representative; attorney
- —代理店Popularagency; agent
- —同時代Popularsame age; same period
- —現代的Popularmodern; modernistic
- —近代詩Popularmodern poetry; modern-style poetry
- —大時代Popularold-fashioned; antiquated; anachronistic
- —黄金時代Populargolden age