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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)
On readings
ダイタイ
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
- —代価price; cost; charge; consideration (in a contract); price (of achieving something); cost; sacrifice
- —代艦replacement warship
- —代願praying by proxy; applying by proxy
- —代休compensatory holiday (for working on a day off); time in lieu
- —代言advocacy; pleading by proxy; speaking for another; attorney
- —代講substitute lecturing; substitute lecturer
- —代作ghost-writing
- —代参visiting a temple for another
- —代署sign for another
- —代書amanuensis; scribe
- —代将brigadier general; commodore
- —代診substitute doctor; locum tenens; locum
- —代数algebra; number of generations (e.g. in imperial succession)
- —代僧substitute priest
- —代走substitute runner; pinch runner; substitute
- —代地substitute land
- —代置replace
- —代読reading for another
- —代入substitution; assignment
- —代任agency; acting official