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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
- —代数多様体algebraic variety; locus defined by polynomial equations
- —代数幾何学algebraic geometry
- —代替フロンCFC substitute; alternative CFCs; alternative chlorofluorocarbon
- —言語年代学glottochronology
- —バブル時代bubble era (of Japan; 1986-1991)
- —世代宇宙船generation ship (science fiction); interstellar ark
- —続縄文時代post-Jōmon period (mainly Hokkaido; 3rd to 7th century BCE); epi-Jōmon period
- —海事代理士maritime judicial scrivener; marine procedure commission agent
- —代理母出産surrogate birth
- —近代美術館modern art museum; museum of modern art
- —近代文学館museum of modern literature
- —二十一代集Collections of the Twenty-One Eras; twenty-one collections of waka compiled by imperial command (early Heian to early Muromachi)
- —ゆとり世代generation of students educated under the "pressure-free" system (from the late 1970s onward)
- —現代アートcontemporary art
- —行政代執行administrative subrogation
- —広告代理業advertising agency business
- —近代アートmodern art
- —現代美術館contemporary art museum; museum of contemporary art
- —近現代美術modern and contemporary art
- —年代測定法age determination method; dating technique