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Japanese data from JMdict, JMnedict, KANJIDIC2, and RADKFILE/KRADFILE (EDRDG). Chinese from CC-CEDICT. French and English from English Wiktionary via Wiktextract. Example sentences from Tatoeba. Stroke diagrams from KanjiVG. JLPT levels follow Jonathan Waller's lists. Full credits on the data and licences page.

Entry
だい代dai

  1. Noun, Noun, used as a suffix

    charge; cost; price

    うちの会社は、いればいるだけ残業代がもらえるからね。
    The longer you stay, the more overtime pay you'll get.

  2. generation; age; (school) year; cohort; reign

  3. era

    geol

  4. a representative of; on behalf of; for (someone)

    after someone's name or title

  5. switchboard number

    used after a phone numbersee 代表電話番号

  6. Counter

    counter for decades of ages, eras, etc.

  7. counter for generations (of inheritors to a throne, etc.)

  8. Noun

    proxy application company

    Abbreviationsee 代理申請会社

  9. pronoun

    Abbreviationused in dictionaries, etc.see 代名詞

Pitch on OJAD

Characters in this word

1
代
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

substitute, change, convert, replace, period, age, counter for decades of ages, eras, etc., generation, charge, rate, fee

Kun
か.わるkawaruかわ.るkawaruかわ.りkawariか.わりkawari-がわ.りgawari-が.わりgawariか.えるkaeruよyoしろshiro
On
ダイdaiタイtai
Strokes
5
Taught
Grade 3
JLPT
N4
Frequency
66 of 2500
Radical
人 person

Built from

化弋

Used in names as

すsu

Words starting with 代Words ending in 代Anywhere in a word
Dictionary and index codes (33)
CodeReference
1-2-3SKIP code
2a3.3The Kanji Dictionary
2324.0Four corner code
2156deroo
4ee3Unicode hex code
1-34-69JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
364Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
125New Nelson (John Haig)
30New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
34Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
18Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
18Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1005Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1080Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
68A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
125Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
85Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
386Morohashi
338A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
256Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
256Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
463sakade
111Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
358henshall3
257Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
87crowley
413Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
2.10busy_people
61Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1014Les Kanjis dans la tête (Yves Maniette)
dai4Pinyin reading
daeKorean reading
n4JLPT level (KANJIDIC2)