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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
- —時代の流れtrend of the times; way things are going
- —年輪年代学dendrochronology
- —線形代数学linear algebra
- —焼け跡世代generation comprising those who were children during WWII (in Japan); burnt ruins generation
- —地質年代学geochronology
- —年輪年代法dendrochronology
- —所得代替率pension replacement rate; income substitution rate (of the public pension)
- —近代経済学modern economics
- —パケット代(mobile broadband) data cost
- —世代間交流intergenerational (social) exchange
- —世代間公平intergenerational equity
- —さとり世代enlightened generation; millennial generation lacking ambition and material desire
- —タクシー代taxi fare
- —上代日本語Old Japanese
- —現代日本語modern Japanese
- —脱近代主義postmodernism
- —チケット代cost of a ticket; price of a ticket
- —代替不可能non-substitutable; irreplaceable; unique; non-fungible
- —新世紀世代millennials; millennial generation
- —不定代名詞indefinite pronoun