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Kanji Grade 3 - 代

Kanji character Grade 3 代. Writing practice along with onyomi and kunyomi readings.

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Kanji Grade 3 - 代
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substitute, change, convert, replace, period, age, counter for decades of ages, eras, etc., generation, charge, rate, fee
Kun: か.わる、 かわ.る、 かわ.り、 か.わり、 -がわ.り、 -が.わり、 か.える、 よ、 しろ
On: ダイ、 タイ
5 strokes
Radical: man, human 人 (亻)
Parts: 化 弋
 
Onyomi
代 【ダイ】 charge, cost, price, generation, age, (school) year, cohort, reign, era, a representative of, on behalf of, for (someone), switchboard number, counter for decades of ages, eras, etc., counter for generations (of inheritors to a throne, etc.), proxy application company, pronoun
代官 【ダイカン】 Edo-period prefectural governor (magistrate, bailiff)
大時代 【オオジダイ】 old-fashioned, antiquated, anachronistic
次代 【ジダイ】 the next era
代謝 【タイシャ】 metabolism, renewal, regeneration, replacing the old with the new
代赭 【タイシャ】 red ocher (ochre)
永代 【エイタイ】 permanence, eternity
希代 【キタイ】 uncommon, rare, extraordinary, matchless
 
Kunyomi
代わる代わる 【かわるがわる】 alternately, by turns
代わる代わる 【かわるがわる】 alternately, by turns
代わり 【かわり】 substitute, replacement, substituting, replacing, stand-in, proxy, alternate, deputy, relief, successor, compensation, exchange, return, another helping, second helping, seconds, refill, upcoming program, upcoming programme
代わり合う 【かわりあう】 to relieve each other, to take turns (to do)
代わり 【かわり】 substitute, replacement, substituting, replacing, stand-in, proxy, alternate, deputy, relief, successor, compensation, exchange, return, another helping, second helping, seconds, refill, upcoming program, upcoming programme
代わり合う 【かわりあう】 to relieve each other, to take turns (to do)
代々 【だいだい】 for generations, hereditary, generation after generation
千代 【ちよ】 thousand years, very long period, forever
君が代 【きみがよ】 Imperial reign, Kimigayo (Japanese national anthem)
代 【しろ】 substitution, material, price, margin (e.g. for stapling, etc.), area required for something, shiro (unit of land area equal to one-fiftieth of a tan; approx. 19.83 m.sq.)
代物 【しろもの】 article, goods, product, fine thing, fellow, affair, stuff, prostitute, price, cost, money
阿代 【あしろ】 Ophidion asiro (species of cusk eel)
食い代 【くいしろ】 food expenses