代

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

Readings

On'yomi (音読み)

タイダイ

Kun'yomi (訓読み)

-が.わり-がわ.りか.えるか.わりか.わるかわ.りかわ.るしろよ

Nanori (名乗り)

す

Stroke Order

5 / 5

Information

Grade:3

Strokes:5

JLPT:N4

Frequency:66

Vocabulary

タイ

Word	Reading	Meaning
永代	エイタイ	permanence; eternity
代謝	タイシャ	metabolism; renewal; regeneration; replacing the old with the new
交代	コウタイ	change; alternation; rotation; replacement; substitution; shift; relief; taking turns
新陳代謝	シンチンタイシャ	renewal; replacement; regeneration; rejuvenation; metabolism
希代	キタイ	uncommon; rare; extraordinary; matchless

ダイ

Word	Reading	Meaning
一代	イチダイ	generation; lifetime; age
黄金時代	オウゴンジダイ	golden age
近代	キンダイ	present day; modern times; recent times; early modern period (in Japan, usu. from the Meiji Restoration until the end of World War II)
近代的	キンダイテキ	modern
現代	ゲンダイ	present age; present day; today; modern era; modern times

Other

Word	Reading	Meaning
身代わり	みがわり	substitution (for someone else); substitute; stand-in; scapegoat; sacrifice
代え	かえ	change; alteration; substitute; spare; replacement; change (e.g. of clothes); rate of exchange
八千代	やちよ	very long period; forever; eight thousand years
千代	ちよ	thousand years; thousand generations; thousand ages; eternity
代替	だいがえ	substitution; alternative; substitute

Visually Similar Kanji

These kanji are easily confused due to similar shapes

fell, strike, attack, punish

adhere, attach, refer to, append

prostrated, bend down, bow, cover, lay (pipes)

transmit, go along, walk along, follow, report, communicate, legend, tradition

attend, doing, official, serve

Buddha, the dead, France

humanity, virtue, benevolence, charity, man, kernel

family name, surname, clan

reject, retreat, recede, withdraw, repel, repulse

lower, short, humble