Kanji1 / 5
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
- —間代room rent
- —車代cost of a car; carfare; honorarium (to cover transportation costs); travel expenses (customarily given by wedding hosts to guests who have travelled from afar)
- —累代successive generations
- —名代proxy; representative
- —名代well-known; fame
- —盛代prosperous era
- —場代rent; cover charge
- —当代the present age; these days; (present) head of the family
- —薬代charge for medicine
- —聖代magnificent imperial reign
- —花代price of a flower; fee for a geisha's companionship
- —本代money for books
- —誌代magazine subscription fee
- —玉代time charge for a geisha
- —昭代glorious reign; enlightened era
- —歳代decade (of age); -ties (e.g. sixties)
- —番代taking turns; relieving the guard
- —宿代accommodation fees; hotel charges; room charges
- —往代ancient times; times of old; time long since passed
- —関代relative pronoun