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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
- —代表電話switchboard
- —代表番号switchboard number
- —室町時代Muromachi period (1336-1573)
- —天神七代seven generations of celestial deities
- —地神五代five generations of earthly deities
- —バイト代earnings from a part-time job; part-time job pay
- —三代実録Sandai Jitsuroku (sixth of the six classical Japanese history texts)
- —代数閉体algebraically closed field
- —五代十国Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period (of China; 907-979)
- —行列代数linear algebra; matrix algebra
- —世代管理generation management
- —代行送信delayed delivery
- —代数理論algebraic theory
- —代替パスalternate path; alternative path
- —前近代的premodern; feudalistic
- —異世代間intergenerational
- —現代用語modern term; neologism
- —代替手段alternative means (alternate); alternative method
- —現代小説contemporary novel; modern novel
- —冷戦時代cold war era