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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
- —時代区分division of history into periods; periodization (in history)
- —令和時代Reiwa period (2019-)
- —代行バスreplacement bus
- —時代めくto be antique-looking; to look old; to be old-fashioned
- —情報時代age of information; information age
- —共同代表joint representative; joint representation
- —末代までforever; eternally; for generations to come
- —越権代理unauthorized proxy; unauthorized representation
- —ゼロ年代the 2000s; the '00s; the aughts; the noughties
- —代理処罰proxy punishment (system of punishment under the laws of a country to which a perpetrator has fled)
- —宇宙時代space age
- —ネット代Internet charge
- —リー代数Lie algebra
- —家事代行housekeeping (service); domestic help; homemaking
- —ホテル代hotel bill; cost of a hotel
- —有性世代sexual generation (of organisms undergoing heterogenesis); teleomorph (of fungi)
- —無性世代asexual generation (of organisms undergoing heterogenesis); anamorph (of fungi)
- —普遍代数universal algebra
- —お通し代otoshi fee; table charge; cover charge; fee for a compulsory appetizer at an izakaya, etc.
- —現役時代active career; one's working life; the years before one retired; playing days