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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
- —固定残業代fixed overtime pay; fixed overtime salary
- —代表民主制representative democracy
- —バブル世代bubble generation; generation that came of age during the Japanese bubble economy era (born 1965-1970)
- —好色一代男The Life of an Amorous Man by Ihara Saikaku (famous novel from the Edo period)
- —現代自動車Hyundai Motor Company
- —妄想代理人Paranoia Agent (2004 anime series)
- —鹿鳴館時代Rokumeikan era (ca. 1883-1887); period of Westernization in Meiji-era Japan, marked by Western-style balls at the Rokumeikan
- —古代エジプトancient Egypt
- —近代五種競技the modern pentathlon
- —掛け売り代金credit account
- —身代を傾けるto squander one's fortunes
- —獲得代議員数delegate count
- —株主代表訴訟shareholder lawsuit
- —高度成長時代high-growth era
- —古き良き時代the good old days; halcyon days
- —代表取締社長company president, with responsibility to represent the company in its dealings with the outside world
- —現代仮名遣いmodern kana orthography (1946 reform, amended 1986); new kana orthography
- —一人称代名詞first-person pronoun
- —二人称代名詞second-person pronoun
- —三人称代名詞third-person pronoun