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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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Kun readings
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
- —代引cash on delivery; COD
- —帳代curtained sleeping platform in shinden-style residences (used by people of high rank)
- —御代charge (for admission, a meal, etc.); fee; price
- —代辯者spokesperson; speaker (for someone); mouthpiece; voice (e.g. for the ordinary citizen)
- —二十代(one's) 20s; twenties
- —代替えsubstitution; alternative; substitute
- —代八車large two-wheeled wagon
- —代替りtaking over (e.g. store or family's headship); subrogation; substitution of one person for another (usu. a creditor)
- —代変りtaking over (e.g. store or family's headship); subrogation; substitution of one person for another (usu. a creditor)
- —古代切ancient cloth fragment
- —古代裂ancient cloth fragment
- —八十代(one's) 80s; eighties
- —親代々inheritance
- —代神楽grand kagura performance at Ise; type of performance including the lion dance and juggling; Camellia japonica 'Daikagura' (cultivar of Japanese camellia)
- —代表処representative office (e.g. diplomatic)
- —揚げ代fee paid for the services of a geisha or prostitute
- —千代萩Russian false yellow lupine (Thermopsis lupinoides)
- —先代萩Russian false yellow lupine (Thermopsis lupinoides)
- —先先代the one before last; two generations, etc. previous
- —所場代fee paid for space (e.g. for a stall)