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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
- —四十代(one's) 40s; forties
- —三十代(one's) 30s; thirties
- —五十代(one's) 50s; fifties
- —六十代(one's) 60s; sixties
- —七十代(one's) 70s; seventies
- —九十代(one's) 90s; nineties
- —御車代honorarium (to cover transportation costs); travel expenses (customarily given by wedding hosts to guests who have travelled from afar)
- —組み代composing charges; composition charges
- —劃時代的epoch-making
- —代金引替cash on delivery; COD
- —平城時代Nara period (710-794 CE)
- —寧楽時代Nara period (710-794 CE)
- —白け世代generation of young people (esp. of the 1970s) apathetic about social issues
- —代替え品substitute article; back-up
- —時代ものantique; historical object; pre-Meiji period drama; period piece
- —時代モノantique; historical object; pre-Meiji period drama; period piece
- —時代後れold-fashioned; behind the times; out-of-date; antiquated
- —代変わりtaking over (e.g. store or family's headship); subrogation; substitution of one person for another (usu. a creditor)
- —世代交替alternation of generations; heterogenesis; change of generations; emergence of a new generation
- —先祖代代ancestral; hereditary; handed down from generation to generation; for generations; from generation to generation