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代

substitute
Stroke count: 5

Readings

On readingダイ、タイ
Kun readingか.わる、かわ.る、かわ.り、か.わり、-がわ.り、-が.わり、か.える、よ、しろ
JōyōGrade 3

Popular Usage

時代代わり近代現代代る代える代名詞お代わり代わる代わる代わる

Radicals and components

Radical人personComponents

Mnemonic (RtK)

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person (人) · arrow (矢)

From "Remembering the Kanji" by James Heisig · Frame 1080

Compound words

時代じだい
period; epoch; era; age; the times
代わりかわり
substitute; replacement; substituting; replacing; stand-in
近代きんだい
present day; modern times; recent times; early modern period (in Japan, usu. from the Meiji Restoration until the end of World War II)
現代げんだい
present age; present day; today; modern era; modern times
代名詞だいめいし
pronoun; synonym; classic example; pattern; byword
お代わりおかわり
another helping; second helping; seconds; refill; other paw!
代わる代わるかわるがわる
alternately; by turns
一代いちだい
generation; lifetime; age
永代えいたい
permanence; eternity
古代こだい
ancient times; distant past; antiquity
次代じだい
the next era
初代しょだい
first generation; founder
世代せだい
generation
先代せんだい
previous generation (of a family); previous head of the family; one's (late) father; predecessor; previous age
代官だいかん
local governor (Edo period); local magistrate; bailiff; deputy official (Middle Ages); acting administrator
代議だいぎ
representing others in a conference
代金だいきん
price; cost; charge; payment; bill
代行だいこう
acting as agent; acting on (someone's) behalf; executing business for
代謝たいしゃ
metabolism; renewal; regeneration; replacing the old with the new
代償だいしょう
compensation; reparation; indemnification; price (of achieving a goal); cost
代人だいにん
substitute; deputy; proxy; representative; agent
代打だいだ
pinch-hitting; pinch hitter; performing a duty in place of someone else; proxy
代表だいひょう
representation; representative; delegate; delegation; exemplification
代弁だいべん
speaking by proxy; speaking for (someone else); acting as spokesman (for); representing (the views, feelings, etc. of); payment by proxy

Stroke Order

5 strokes

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