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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
- —金属器時代Metal Age (i.e. the Bronze Age and the Iron Age)
- —大空位時代Great Interregnum (period of the Holy Roman Empire; approx. 1254-1273)
- —大航海時代Age of Discovery; Age of Exploration
- —吉野朝時代Yoshino period (Japan's Northern and Southern Courts period, esp. from the viewpoint of the legitimacy of the Southern Court, 1336-1392)
- —ブール代数Boolean algebra
- —保険代理店insurance agent
- —代議民主制representative democracy
- —反照代名詞reflexive pronoun (in Japanese grammar only)
- —反射代名詞reflexive pronoun (in Japanese grammar only)
- —対称代名詞second-person pronoun
- —代行受信者alternate recipient
- —代数演算子algebraic operator
- —代替クラスalternative class
- —代入演算子assignment operator; substitution operator
- —代理受信者substitute recipient
- —ガソリン代gasoline bill; cost of gasoline
- —世代間倫理intergenerational ethics
- —時代がかるto look old-fashioned; to be antique-looking
- —古代ローマancient Rome
- —植民地時代colonial period