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
- —役代points awarded for scoring combinations
- —版代(printing, etc.) plate cost
- —朝代dynastic era
- —元代Yuan dynasty (of China; 1271-1368); Yüan dynasty; Mongol dynasty
- —間代clonus
- —紙代newspaper subscription fee
- —代決deciding on behalf of someone; deciding for someone in their stead
- —郡代district acting shugo (in the Muromachi period); deputy military governor (of a district); district magistrate (in the Edo period)
- —陣代deputy who went to the battlefield in his lord's stead (Muromachi period onward); provisional regent (standing in for an underage lord; Muromachi period onward); official left in charge of a jin'ya in a lord's absence; local magistrate
- —組代composing charges; composition charges
- —一代記biography
- —化粧代lady's pin money; cosmetics expense
- —近代化modernization; modernisation
- —近代史modern history
- —現時代the present era
- —現代詩modern poetry
- —現代人modern person; people of today
- —古代語ancient Japanese (as spoken in Japan until the Middle Ages)
- —古代史ancient history
- —古代人the ancients; ancient people