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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
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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
- —代納payment for another; payment by proxy; paying in kind; paying with a substitute
- —代筆writing on someone's behalf
- —代品substitute article
- —代父godfather
- —代物substitute
- —代返answer a roll call for another
- —代母godmother
- —代務vicarious management
- —大代main telephone number
- —地代land rent
- —末代all ages to come; all generations; eternity
- —万代thousands of years; eternity; all generations
- —身代fortune; property
- —舌代a notice
- —無代free of charge
- —譜代successive generations; hereditary daimyo whose ancestors supported Tokugawa Ieyasu prior to the battle of Sekigahara
- —後代posterity; future generations
- —手代sales clerk
- —足代transportation expenses; travel expenses; fare (train, taxi, etc.)
- —茶代a tip