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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
- —青春時代one's youth; one's youthful days (years); the flower of one's youth; the springtime of one's life
- —前時代的premodern; old-fashioned; outmoded; antiquated
- —団塊世代the babyboomers; the baby boom generation
- —当代第一the greatest of the day
- —当代無双being unsurpassed (unparalleled) at present
- —不遇時代one's dark days; the period during which one suffered misfortune and obscurity
- —譜代相伝hereditary succession
- —万劫末代eternity; through all eternity; for evermore; for many generations to come
- —一代分限new money; nouveau riche; person who has amassed substantial wealth in his lifetime
- —一代雑種F1 hybrid; first filial hybrid; first cross
- —一期末代this world (life) and the next; eternity
- —現代舞踊contemporary dance; modern dance
- —飽食時代current era of excessive eating; era in which there is more than enough food; age of plenty; age of plentiful food
- —表見代理apparent authority
- —現代音楽modern music
- —代替効果substitution effect
- —先史時代prehistoric era; prehistoric times; prehistory
- —原史時代protohistory (the period between prehistory and history)
- —歴代誌上Chronicles I (book of the Bible)
- —歴代誌下Chronicles II (book of the Bible)