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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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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
- —指示代名詞demonstrative pronoun
- —南北朝時代Nanbokuchō period (of Japan; 1336-1392); period of the Northern and Southern courts; period of the Northern and Southern dynasties (of China; 5th-6th centuries CE)
- —関係代名詞relative pronoun
- —代表取締役representative director; managing director; president; someone chosen by the board of directors from among the directors to actually represent the company in its dealings with the outside world
- —代数方程式algebraic equation
- —職能代表制vocational representation system
- —代が変わるto change hands; to be succeeded
- —代々伝わるto be handed down from generation to generation
- —原子力時代atomic age
- —法定代理人statutory representative; legal representative
- —大統領代行acting president
- —常陸梅時代era during early 1900s dominated by the grand champions Hitachiyama and Umegatani II
- —特許代理業patent agency
- —代理店経費agency cost
- —抽象代数学abstract algebra; modern algebra
- —委任代理人authorized agent
- —先土器時代preceramic period
- —無土器時代preceramic period
- —先縄文時代pre-Jomon period (i.e. the preceramic period)
- —大御所時代Ōgosho period (between the Kansei Reforms and the Tempo Reforms, approx. 1787-1843)