Kanji: 代

    • Meaning : substitute,change,convert,replace,period,age,"counter for decades of ages, eras, etc.",generation,charge,rate,fee
    • ON reading : ダイ,タイ
    • KUN reading : か.わる,かわ.る,かわ.り,-がわ.り,か.える,よ,しろ
    • Nanori :
    • Stroke count : 5
    • Frequency of use ranking : 66
    • Jouyou grade level : 3
    • JLPT : 3
    • Radical : 人(亻)

Words containing that kanji:


  • セクハラ - だいしょうがたセクハラ - quid pro quo sexual harassment
  • くはかぬは - きくはいっときのはじきかぬはまつだいのはじ - Better ask than go astray
  • エネルギー - エネルギーたいしゃりつ - relative metabolic rate
  • - ちょうじだい - the era of the ... dynasty/the ... reign
  • - ひとはいちだいなはまつだい - Worthy men shall be remembered
  • うはわぬは - とうはいっときのはじとわぬはまつだいのはじ - Better to ask and be embarrassed than not ask and never to know
  • - だいしゃ - loaner vehicle (e.g. from a garage which is repairing one's vehicle)
  • - 〜ちょうじだい - the era of the ... dynasty/the ... reign
  • - だいたいしゅだん - alternative means (alternate)/alternative method
  • - きんげんだい - the modern era/present day
  • - どうせだい - same generation/one's generation
  • - げんだいようご - word of recent origin/neologism/recent word/modern term
  • - いせだいかん - intergenerational
  • ガソリン - ガソリンだい - gasoline (money)/petrol (cost)
  • - れきだいし - The Chronicles (books of the Bible)
  • - あじろがき - wicker fence
  • - だいりしんせいかいしゃ - proxy application company
  • - あじろがさ - conical wicker hat
  • - いせだい - intergenerational/of different generations
  • - ぜんきんだいてき - premodern/feudalistic
  • - ふどうしょうすうてんだいすう - floating point algebra
  • - りようしゃていぎだいにゅうぶん - defined assignment statement
  • - はっしんしゃようきゅうだいこうじゅしんしゃ - originator requested alternate recipient
  • による - なまえによるだいにゅう - assignment by name
  • - だいこうそうしん - delayed delivery
  • トラック - だいたいトラック - alternate track/alternative track
  • サーバー - だいりサーバー - proxy server
  • - だい4せだいげんご - fourth generation language (4GL)
  • - そうたいせだいばんごう - relative generation number
  • - だいこうじゅしんしゃとうろく - alternate recipient assignment
  • クラス - だいがえクラス - alternative class
  • - だいにゅうぶん - assignment statement
  • - じょうほうけんさくだいこうぎょうしゃ - information broker
  • コンピュータ - しんせだいコンピュータぎじゅつかいはつきこう - The Institute for New Generation Computer Technology/ICOT
  • - せだいかんり - generation management
  • - だいこうじゅしんしゃきょか - alternate recipient allowed
  • - だいすうりろん - algebraic theory
  • - だいにゅうえんざんし - assignment operator/substitution operator
  • コンピューター - だいごせだいコンピューター - the fifth generation computer
  • コンピュータ - しんせだいコンピュータかいはつきこう - ICOT
  • - だいこうじゅしんしゃ - alternate recipient
  • - だいすうえんざんし - algebraic operator
  • パス - だいがえパス - alternate path/alternative path
  • - だいりじゅしんしゃ - substitute recipient
  • コンピュータ - だい5せだいコンピュータ - Fifth Generation Computer System/FGCS
  • - ぎょうれつだいすう - linear algebra/matrix algebra
  • パス - こうたいパス - alternate path
  • トラック - こうたいトラック - alternate track/alternative track
  • リーダー - リーダーこうたい - leadership change
  • ポインタ - ポインタだいにゅうぶん - pointer assignment statement
  • ポインタ - ポインタだいにゅう - pointer assignment
  • - あずちももやまじだい - Azuchi-Momoyama period (approx. 1558-1600 CE)
  • - あんこくじだい - the Dark Ages
  • - いちだいき - biography
  • - いちだい - generation/lifetime/age
  • | | - のみしろ - drink money/drinking money
  • - えいたい - permanence/eternity
  • - えいたいしゃくち - perpetual lease
  • - おうごんじだい - Golden Age
  • - なんだいめ - what ordinal number (of a president)
  • - けしょうだい - lady's pin money/cosmetics expense
  • - かくじだいてき - epoch-making
  • - がくせいじだい - student days
  • - かまくらじだい - Kamakura period (1185-1333 CE)
  • - かんじだい - Han dynasty
  • - ぎもんだいめいし - interrogative pronoun
  • - きゅうせっきじだい - old stone age/paleolithic
  • - きんむこうたい - change of shifts
  • - きんだいか - modernization/modernisation/modernize/modernise
  • - きんだいかがく - modern science
  • - きんだいし - modern history
  • - きんだい - present day/modern times
  • - きんだいてき - modern
  • - たいしょうだいめいし - second-person pronoun
  • - だいこうぎょう - agency/proxy service
  • り - つきがわり - (a) new month starts
  • - げんだい - nowadays/modern era/modern times/present-day
  • - げんだいぶんめい - modern civilization/modern civilisation
  • - はんしゃだいめいし - reflexive pronoun (in Japanese grammar only)
  • - げんしじだい - primitive times
  • - こだいし - ancient history
  • - げんじだい - the present era
  • - げんだいじん - modern person (people)
  • - こだいご - ancient language
  • - げんだいかがく - present-day science/modern science
  • - こだい - ancient times
  • - こだいじん - the ancients
  • - げんしじだい - atomic age
  • - はんしょうだいめいし - reflexive pronoun (in Japanese grammar only)
  • - げんだいし - modern poetry
  • エジプト - こだいエジプト - ancient Egypt
  • - こだいぶんめい - ancient civilization/ancient civilisation
  • - きんだいごうりしゅぎ - modern rationalism
  • - こうたいせい - shift system
  • で - こうたいで - alternately/by turns
  • - こうたいそうぎょう - working in shifts
  • - のりしろ - overlap width/margin to paste up
  • - だいすうけい - algebraic system
  • いつのも - いつのじだいも - in all ages; over the ages; forever and ever
  • - こうたい - exchange (something)
  • - こうたいさぎょう - working in shifts
  • - こうたいいん - shift (of workmen)
  • - こうたいとうしゅ - relief pitcher
  • - えどじだい - Edo period (1603-1868 CE)
  • - ごだいじっこく - Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms (in Chinese history)
  • - こうこくだいりてん - advertising firm/advertising company
  • - だいぎみんしゅせい - representative democracy
  • - だいがくぜんにゅうじだい - era in which university places outnumber university applicants/era of declining enrollment
  • - だいすうへいたい - algebraically closed field
  • - だいすうてき - algebraical
  • - じだいまつり - Festival of the Ages (Oct. 22 festival held at Heian Jingu Shrine in Kyoto)
  • - ちじんごだい - five generations of earthly deities
  • - さんだいじつろく - Sandai Jitsuroku (sixth of the six classical Japanese history texts)
  • | - かみよななよ - seven generations of (celestial) gods
  • いつのにも - いつのじだいにも - in all ages; over the ages; forever and ever
  • - てんじんしちだい - seven generations of celestial deities
  • - かんだい - relative pronoun
  • バイト - バイトだい - earnings from a part-time job
  • - にほんさんだいじつろく - Nihon Sandai Jitsuroku (sixth of the six classical Japanese history texts)
  • - さんびゃくだいげん - pettifogging lawyer/unscrupulous or unethical lawyer/shyster | casuist/sophist
  • | - さんきんこうたい - official attendance service (by a daimyo in the Edo era)
  • - さいきだいめいし - reflexive pronoun
  • - さんきんこうたい - daimyo's alternating Edo residence
  • - だいひょうけん - (right of) representation/right to represent (e.g. a company)
  • - じだい - period/epoch/era/age | the times/those days | oldness/ancientness/antiquity | antique/period piece
  • - じせだい - next (future) generation
  • - じだいげき - historical play
  • - じだい - the next era
  • - だいだくしゃ - legal representative/legal guardian
  • - じだいさくご - anachronism
  • に - ちよにやちよに - for millennia and millennia/for years and years/forever and ever
  • - さかだい - alcohol expenses
  • - しゅうりだい - cost of repairs
  • - じゅうだい - successive generations
  • き - だいびき - cash on delivery/COD
  • - きみがよらん - curve-leaf yucca (Yucca recurvifolia)
  • - しょだい - first generation/founder
  • - おもてだい - head steward (of an estate)
  • - しょうわじだい - Showa period (1926-1989 CE)
  • - じょうだい | うわだい - ancient times | (nominal) retail price
  • - しんせっきじだい - new stone age/neolithic
  • による - いにんじょうによるだいりにん - attorney-in-fact
  • - どうきじだい - Copper Age (period in which metal tools started to be used alongside stone tools)
  • - あづちじだい - Azuchi period (first half of the Azuchi-Momoyama period, 1568-1582 CE)
  • - おうちょうじだい - Dynastic period (the Nara period and esp. the Heian period, characterized by the rule of the emperor as opposed to shogunate)
  • - ぎしんなんぼくちょうじだい - Wei, Jin, and Southern and Northern Dynasties period (220-589 CE)
  • - げんぺいじだい - Gempei period (late 11th century-late 12th century CE)
  • - しゅんじゅうじだい - Spring and Autumn period (of Chinese history, approx. 770-403 BCE)
  • カリフ - せいとうカリフじだい - Rashidun period (the period of the Rightly Guided Caliphs, 632-661 CE)
  • - ちしつねんだい - geological time
  • - てんぴょうじだい - Tempyo period (esp. used as a period of art history, 710-794 CE)
  • - ひがしやまじだい - Higashiyama period (cultural and artistic period of the mid-Muromachi)
  • - じょうだい - chamberlain/castle keeper
  • - よしのじだい - Yoshino period (Japan's Northern and Southern Courts period, esp. from the viewpoint of the legitimacy of the Southern Court, 1336-1392 CE)
  • - だいひょうでんわ - switchboard
  • - れきだいしか - Chronicles II (book of the Bible)
  • | - みのしろきん - ransom
  • - せんどきじだい - preceramic period
  • - きんぞくきじだい - Metal Age (i.e. the Bronze Age and the Iron Age)
  • - こうにんじょうがんじだい - Kounin-Jougan period (of Japanese art history, approx. 794-894 CE)
  • - じょうがんじだい - Jougan period (of art history, 859-877 CE)
  • - きんせきへいようじだい - Chalcolithic period (i.e. the Copper Period)
  • - だいくういじだい - Great Interregnum (gap between Hohenstaufen and Habsburg rule of the Holy Roman Empire, approx. 1254-1273 CE)
  • - とくがわじだい - Tokugawa period (i.e. the Edo period, 1600-1867 CE)
  • - ぶんかぶんせいじだい - Bunka-Bunsei period (approx. 1804-1830 CE)
  • - ほうしゃねんだい - radiometric age
  • - だいひょうでんわばんごう - switchboard number
  • - しんちんたいしゃ - renewal/replacement/metabolism
  • - しんじだい - new period/new age/new epoch
  • ブール - ブールだいすう - Boolean algebra
  • - ほけんだいりてん - insurance agent
  • - れきだいしじょう - Chronicles I (book of the Bible)
  • - かみよ | じんだい - ancient time/age of the gods
  • - せんじょうもんじだい - pre-Jomon period (i.e. the preceramic period)
  • - えどじだいぶんがく - Edo-period literature
  • - おおごしょじだい - Ogosho period (between the Kansei Reforms and the Tempo Reforms, approx. 1787-1843)
  • - けいえんじだい - Keien period (between the end of the Russo-Japanese War and the Taisho Political Crisis, approx. 1905-1912 CE)
  • - さんごくじだい - Three Kingdoms period (of Chinese history, 220-280 CE) | Three Kingdoms period (of Korean history, 4th-7th centuries CE)
  • - すいこじだい - Suiko period (i.e. the Asuka period, esp. under the reign of Empress Suiko, approx. 592-628 CE)
  • カンブリア - せんカンブリアじだい - Precambrian era
  • わり | り - みがわり - substitute (for)/sacrifice (of, to)/scapegoat (for)
  • - たぬまじだい - Tanuma period (1767-1786 CE)
  • - はっけんじだい - Age of Discovery
  • - よしのちょうじだい - Yoshino period (Japan's Northern and Southern Courts period, esp. from the viewpoint of the legitimacy of the Southern Court, 1336-1392 CE)
  • - ぜったいねんだい - absolute age
  • - むろまちじだい - Muromachi period (1333-1573 CE)
  • - じんだいめいし - personal pronoun
  • - せだい - generation/the world/the age
  • - むどきじだい - preceramic period
  • アマルナ - アマルナじだい - Amarna period (of Egyptian history)
  • - ふじわらじだい - Fujiwara period (esp. used as a period of art history, approx. 894-1185 CE)
  • - しょくほうじだい - Shokuho period (i.e. the Azuchi-Momoyama period, approx. 1568-1600 CE)
  • - だいこうかいじだい - Age of Discovery/Age of Exploration
  • - はくほうじだい - Hakuho period (esp. used as a period of art history, approx. 645-710 CE)
  • - りつりょうじだい - Ritsuryo period (mid 7th-10th centuries CE)
  • - そうたいねんだい - relative age
  • - げんせいだい - Proterozoic era
  • - だいひょうばんごう - pilot number
  • - せいどうきじだい - Bronze Age
  • - せっきじだい - Stone Age
  • - けずりしろ - cutting stock (extra material cut off in machining operations as a safety margin for tolerances)/machining allowance
  • - せんだい - family predecessor/previous age/previous generation
  • - せんごくじだい - Warring States period (of Japanese history, approx. 1467-1568 CE) | Warring States period (of Chinese history, 403-221 BCE) | era of vicious competition
  • - ちよがみ - gaily colored paper/gaily coloured paper
  • - せんけいだいすう - linear algebra
  • - ぜんだい - previous generation/former ages
  • - ぜんせいじだい - golden age
  • - せんしじだい - prehistoric era/prehistoric times/prehistory
  • - ぜんだいみもん - unheard-of/unprecedented/unparalleled in history (unparallelled)/record-breaking
  • - ぜんしじだい - prehistoric period
  • | - なわしろぐみ | ナワシログミ - silverthorn (species of oleaster, Elaeagnus pungens)/thorny elaeagnus/thorny olive
  • - げんしじだい - protohistory (the period between prehistory and history)
  • - そうだい - representative
  • - あしかがじだい - Ashikaga period (i.e. the Muromachi period, 1333-1573 CE)
  • - おうだい - ancient times/times of old/time long since passed
  • - きょうちょくかんだいほっさ - tonic-clonic seizure
  • - 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; ~19.83 m.sq.)
  • - かわりやく - substitute actor/stand-in/double
  • - だいいん - proxy
  • - だいかん - replacement warship
  • - だいぎいん - representative/delegate
  • - だいぎせいじ - representative government
  • | | え | え - だいきんひきかえ - cash on delivery/COD
  • - だいげんにん - attorney/lawyer
  • - だいこう - substitute lecturing/substitute lecturer
  • - たいしゃ - renewal/regeneration/metabolism
  • - だいしょう - compensation/indemnification/reparation/consideration
  • - だいすう - algebra
  • - だいそう - substitute runner
  • - だいたいぶつ - substitute article
  • - だいにゅう - substitution/assignment
  • - だいひつ - amanuensis
  • - だいひょうしゃ - representative/delegate
  • - だいひょうれい - representative example
  • - だいぶつ - substitute
  • - だいぼ - godmother
  • - だいよう - substitution
  • り | わりわり - かわりがわり - alternately/in turn/one after the other
  • - だいいん - signing by proxy
  • - だいかん - Edo-period prefectural governor (magistrate, bailiff)
  • - だいぎ - representing others in a conference
  • - だいぎせいど - parliamentary system
  • - だいきん - price/payment/cost/charge/the money/the bill
  • - だいげんしゃ - advocate
  • - だいこうしゃ - agent/proxy
  • わりえ | え | わりえ | わりえ | わりえ - かわりばえ - successful substitution (vs usu. in the negative) | change for the better
  • - だいあん - alternate plan
  • - だいえん - substitute for an another
  • - だいがん - praying by proxy/applying by proxy
  • - だいぎいんだん - delegation
  • - だいぎせいたい - representative government
  • - だいげいこ - substitute teaching
  • - だいこう - acting as agent
  • - だいさく - ghost-writing
  • - だいしょ - sign for another
  • - だいしょう - brigadier general/commodore
  • - だいすうがく - algebra
  • - だいだ - pinch-hitting
  • - だいち - substitute land
  • - だいにん - agency/acting official
  • - だいひょう - representative/representation/delegation/type/example/model
  • - だいひょうだん - delegation
  • - だいひん - substitute article
  • - だいへん - answer a roll call for another
  • - だいむ - vicarious management
  • - だいようしょく - substitute food
  • - だいりいにんじょう - power of attorney
  • 使 - だいりこうし - charge d'affaires of a legation
  • - だいりてん - agent/agency
  • - だいりりょうじ - acting consul
  • - たいしょうじだい - Taisho period (1912-1926 CE)
  • - だいり - representation/agency/proxy/deputy/agent/attorney/substitute/alternate/acting (principal, etc.)
  • - だいりけん - agency/(attorney's) authority of representation
  • 使 - だいりたいし - charge d'affaires of embassy
  • - だいりぼくし - vicar
  • - だいだい - main telephone number
  • う - かわりあう - to relieve each other/to take turns
  • - だいい - substitution
  • - だいか - price/cost/charge/consideration (in a contract)
  • - だいがんにん - one who offers prayer in place of another
  • - だいぎし - parliamentarian/member of a congress
  • - だいきゅう - compensatory holiday
  • - だいげん - advocacy/pleading by proxy/speaking for another/attorney
  • - だいこうきかん - agency
  • - だいさん - visiting a temple for another
  • - だいしょ - amanuensis/scribe
  • - だいしん - doctor's assistance/doctor's assistant/locum tenens
  • - だいすうしき - algebraic expression
  • - だいだしゃ - pinch hitter
  • - だいち - replace
  • - だいねんしゃ - car running on substitute fuel
  • - だいひょうかく - representative
  • - だいひょうてき - representative/exemplary/model
  • - だいふ - godfather
  • - だいべん - pay by proxy/act for another/speak for another
  • - だいめいし - pronoun | synonym/classic example/pattern/byword/representative
  • - だいようにく - meat substitute
  • - だいりぎょう - agency
  • - だいりしゃ - proxy/agent/substitute/deputy/alternate/representative/attorney
  • - だいりとうひょう - voting by proxy
  • - たいしゃ - red ocher
  • - だんかいのせだい - baby boom generation
  • - だいしっこう - carrying out by proxy
  • - だいしょにん - scribe/amanuensis
  • - だいにん - substitute/deputy/proxy/representative/agent
  • - だいそう - substitute priest
  • ち - だいまち - waiting in place of someone else
  • - だいどく - reading for another
  • - だいのう - payment for another
  • - だいひょうさく - masterpiece/representative work
  • - だいひょうぶ - diplomatic mission
  • - しろもの - thing/article/goods/fellow/affair
  • - だいべんしゃ - spokesman/mouthpiece
  • - だいやく - important mission/heavy role/substitute actor/stand-in/double
  • - だいようひん - substitute
  • - だいりぎょうしゃ - agent
  • - だいりにん - proxy/agent/substitute/deputy/alternate/representative/attorney
  • - だいりぶ - mail-order department/branch store
  • - たいしゃいろ - yellowish-brown
  • - やまとじだい - Yamato period (300-550 CE)
  • - ちだい | じだい - land rent
  • - ちょうえつこうたい - passage of lines
  • - ほうしゃせいたんそねんだいそくてい - radiocarbon dating/carbon-14 dating
  • - てっきじだい - Iron Age
  • - でんきだい - electric utility expense
  • - ちっそたいしゃ - nitrogen metabolism
  • - さんにんしょうだいめいし - third person pronoun
  • - ももやまじだい - Momoyama period (latter half of the Azuchi-Momoyama period, approx. 1583-1600 CE)
  • - だいたいこうか - substitution effect
  • - いにんだいりにん - authorized agent
  • - どうじだい - the same age/same period
  • - いちにんしょうだいめいし - first person pronoun
  • - だいどうし - pro-verb (e.g. "to do")
  • - にじゅうだい - one's twenties
  • い - げんだいかなづかい - modern kana usage (as laid out by the Japanese government in 1946)
  • - ねんだいき - annals/chronicle/chronology
  • - いってはんばいだいりけん - sole agency authority
  • - ならじだい - Nara period (710-794 CE)
  • - ににんしょうだいめいし - second person pronoun
  • - ねんだいじゅん - chronological order
  • - げんだいおんがく - modern music
  • - にっていじだい - era of Japanese imperialism
  • - ねんだい - age/era/period/date
  • - しらけせだい - generation of young people (esp. of the 1970s) apathetic about social issues
  • - ひょうけんだいり - apparent authority
  • - しょうせんきょくひれいだいひょうへいりつせい - electoral system comprised of single-seat constituencies and proportionally represented multiple-seat constituencies
  • 簿 - ひこうそくめいぼしきひれいだいひょうせい - proportional representation system in which both party and individual votes are cast, seats are distributed amongst parties by proportion of vote obtained, and candidates are elected in descending order of number of votes obtained
  • - あすかじだい - Asuka period (550-710 CE)
  • - やちよ - eternity/thousands of years
  • 簿 - めいぼしきひれいだいひょうせい - proportional representation system in which votes are cast for a publicly available list of party members or for individual members of that list
  • - はんばいだいりてん - sales agent
  • - なわしろ | なえしろ - rice nursery/bed for rice seedlings
  • - ひょうがじだい - ice age/glacial period
  • - かたがわりしんたくしょうしょ - wrap-around deed of trust
  • - ちゅうしょうだいすうがく - abstract algebra/modern algebra
  • - げんだいしゃかい - modern society
  • - だいりてんけいひ - agency cost
  • - ぶけじだい - Feudal period (characterized by the rule of the shogunate as opposed to emperor, 1185-1867 CE)
  • - へやだい - room rent
  • - ほうけんじだい - feudal period
  • - へいせいじだい - Heisei period (1989-)
  • - しゅじゅつだい - surgery costs (fees)
  • - へいあんじだい - Heian period (794-1185)
  • - ほうしょくじだい - current era of excessive eating/era in which there is more than enough food/age of plenty/age of plentiful food
  • 宿 - やどだい - hotel charges (for lodging, not meals, etc.)
  • - しょくじだい - cost of a meal (or meals)
  • - まつだい - forever/in perpetuity
  • る - ぬいしろをわる - to stop an inside seam rolling about/to press open a seam (and open the left and right sides out)
  • - ばんだいふえき - eternity/perpetuity
  • - たいしゃけいろ - metabolic pathway
  • - めいじじだい - Meiji period (1868-1912)
  • - げんだいぶよう - contemporary dance/modern dance
  • える | える - きせかえる - to change clothes on a doll
  • のしまつ - ぬいしろのしまつ - inside stitched edge of inverted seam/rough stitch
  • - やよいじだい - Yayoi period (c. 300 BCE-300 CE)
  • - いちごまつだい - this world (life) and the next/eternity
  • - だいしょや - notary public/scribe/amanuensis
  • - りょこうだいりてん - travel agent
  • - れきだい - successive generations/successive emperors
  • - れきだいし - chronicles/annals
  • - とっきょだいりぎょう - patent agency
  • - さかやき | つきしろ - shaved part of the forehead
  • - いちだいざっしゅ - F1 hybrid/first filial hybrid/first cross
  • めしろ | - しめしろ - interference/jamming
  • - いっせいいちだい | いっせいちだい - once in a lifetime/the first and last occurrence (event, experience) of one's lifetime
  • わりう - かわりあう - to relieve each other/to take turns (to do)
  • | え - だいがえ | だいがわり | だいたい - change of ownership/substitution/subrogation/alternation | alternative/substitute
  • | - せんだい | ちよ - thousand years | very long period/forever
  • | - ばんだい | まんだい | よろずよ - thousands of years/eternity/all generations
  • わる | わる - いれかわる - to change places/to relieve one another
  • わりに | りに - かわりに - instead of/for/as/in exchange for/in return (for)/to make up for
  • わるわる | る - かわるがわる - alternately/by turns
  • える | える | える - いれかえる - to replace/to substitute/to shift/to change places
  • る | わる | わる | わる - かわる - to take the place of/to relieve/to be substituted for/to be exchanged/to change places with/to take turns/to be replaced
  • える | える | える - かえる - to replace | to exchange/to interchange | to substitute
  • こに | こに - かわりばんこに - alternately
  • | 10 | - じゅうだい - the teens (10-19)/teenage/the tenth generation
  • そのわり | そのり - そのかわり - instead/but (on the other hand)
  • わり | り - かたがわり - shouldering another's debt
  • わり | り - かわり | がわり - substitute/deputy/proxy/alternate/relief/compensation/second helping | in place of/as a substitute for
  • に | に - かわりばんに - alternately
  • | - こうたい - alternation/change/relief/relay/shift/substitution (sports, etc.)
  • 々 | - おやだいだい - inheritance
  • | - だいがえひん | だいたいひん - substitute article/back-up
  • - はちじゅうだい - the eighties (age, years, etc.)
  • | | - よりしろ - object representative of a divine spirit/object to which a spirit is drawn or summoned/object or animal occupied by a kami
  • | 々 | 々 | - だいだい | よよ - for generations/hereditary/generation after generation
  • | - よ - world/society/age/generation
  • - ちゅうしょくだい - lunch price
  • - きんだいおんがく - modern music/contemporary music
  • わり | り | わり | おわり | おり | おり - おかわり - second helping/another cup/seconds | command to have dog place its second paw in one's hand
  • - ちよよろずよ - for ever and ever/(through) eternity/countless ages/till the end of time
  • - どうだいむひ - being unsurpassed (unparalleled) at present
  • - いちだいぶんげん | いちだいぶげん - new money/nouveau riche/person who has amassed substantial wealth in his lifetime
  • - ちゅうせいだい - Mesozoic era
  • - ちゅうせっきじだい - Mesolithic age/Middle Stone Age
  • - とうだいむそう - being unsurpassed (unparalleled) at present
  • え - かえ - substitute/proxy
  • - とうだいだいいち - the greatest of the day
  • - ふだいそうでん - hereditary succession
  • | - きみがよ - Imperial reign | title of Japanese national anthem
  • - じだいそう - phases of the age (times)
  • - ぜんじだいてき - premodern/old-fashioned/outmoded/antiquated
  • - だんかいせだい - the babyboomers/the baby boom generation
  • - しんせいだい - Cenozoic era
  • - ふぐうじだい - one's dark days/the period during which one suffered misfortune and obscurity
  • - まんごうまつだい - eternity/through all eternity/for evermore/for many generations to come
  • - しんだい - fortune/property
  • - ぜつだい | しただい - a notice
  • - せいしゅんじだい - one's youth/one's youthful days (years)/the flower of one's youth/the springtime of one's life
  • - しはんだい - assistant instructor
  • - さんだい - three generations/three periods | third generation
  • - むだい - free of charge
  • - えいたいくよう - services performed in perpetuity by a Buddhist temple for the repose of a departed soul
  • - ふだい - successive generations/hereditary (Tokugawa) daimyo
  • - きたいみもん - unheard-of/unparalleled
  • - きゅうばくじだい - the shogunate period/the days of the shogunate regime
  • | - きだい | きたい - rarity/uncommonness
  • - ぶちょうだいり - deputy section or department manager
  • - げんだいしんしょ - a series of paperbacks published since 1964 by Kodansha
  • - だいひょうとりしまりしゃちょう - company president, with responsibility to represent the company in its dealings with the outside world
  • - だいようかんごく - police custody/police detention/substitute prison
  • - りんこじだい - (sumo) era during mid-1970s dominated by grand champions Wajima and Kitanoumi
  • 々 | - せんぞだいだい - ancestral/hereditary/generation after generation/passing from father to son
  • - しんきゅうこうたい - replacing the old with the new/the old giving way to the new
  • り | - いちだいとしより - special sumo coaching stock awarded to retired grand champion
  • - きたたまじだい - (sumo) era at the turn of 1960s into 70s dominated by grand champions Kitanofuji and Tamanoumi
  • - ひたちうめじだい - (sumo) era during early 1900s dominated by the grand champions Hitachiyama and Umegatani II
  • - あみしろ - dividing up a fishing catch
  • - こうだい - posterity/future generations
  • - とうだいずいいち - the greatest of the day
  • - こてんじだい - the classical period
  • - きりんじだい - (sumo) era at the end of 1970s dominated by grand champion Wajima and ozeki Takanohana
  • - はくほうじだい - (sumo) era during 1960s dominated by grand champions Taiho and Kashiwado
  • - あじろ - wickerwork
  • - ばんだい - taking turns | relieving the guard
  • - ふるきよきじだい - the good old days/halcyon days
  • - のれんだい - goodwill/intangible assets (part of the acquisition price of a business paid for the name and reputation of the company rather than tangible assets)
  • - ふだいだいみょう - hereditary daimyo (whose ancestors supported Tokugawa Ieyasu prior to the battle of Sekigahara)
  • - こせいだい - Paleozoic era
  • - こだいむらさき - reddish-purple
  • - とちわかじだい - (sumo) era during the 1950s dominated by grand champions Tochinishiki and Wakanohana I
  • - あけたかじだい - (sumo) era during mid-1990s dominated by grand champions Akebono and Takanohana II
  • | - みよ - imperial reign
  • | - いくよ - generations/ages/years
  • - さいだい - decade (of age)/the ...ties
  • - てだい - a sales clerk
  • - ちゃだい - a tip
  • - げんだいか - modernization/modernisation
  • - あしだい - transportation or traveling expenses (travelling)
  • り - しんだいかぎり - going bankrupt
  • ってわる - とってかわる - to supplant/to supersede
  • - げんだいてき - modernistic
  • - どうねんだい - the same generation/coeval
  • れ - じだいばなれ - not up with the times/out of touch
  • 簿 - こうそくめいぼしきひれいだいひょうせい - proportional representation electoral system (n which party votes are cast, and candidates from each party are elected based on an ordered list available to the public)
  • - だいがえいりょう - alternative medicine
  • - まだい - room rent
  • - げんだいご - a modern language
  • - にんしょうだいめいし - personal pronoun
  • わり - おやがわり - (one acting as a) foster parent
  • - くるまだい - carfare/cartage fee/honorarium
  • - ぬいしろ - margin for a seam
  • - みのしろきんようきゅう - ransom demand
  • - せいけんこうたい - regime change
  • オリンピック - こだいオリンピック - ancient Olympics
  • - こうどせいちょうじだい - high-growth era
  • - だいりしゅっさん - surrogate birth
  • - ひれいだいひょうせい - proportional representation
  • - ちりょうだい - medical fees
  • - るいだい - successive generations
  • - かくとくだいぎいんすう - delegate count
  • - みょうだい - proxy/representative
  • - かぶぬしだいひょうそしょう - shareholder lawsuit
  • - じせだいけいたいでんわ - next-generation mobile phone
  • - だいがえりょうほう - alternative therapy
  • - だいとうりょうだいこう - acting president
  • - だい - charge/cost/price | generation/age/reign | (geological) era | (after someone's name or title) a representative of/on behalf of/for (someone) | used after a phone number to indicate that it is a switchboard number | counter for decades of ages, eras, etc. | counter for generations (of inheritors to a throne, etc.) | proxy application company
  • - なだい - well-known/fame
  • - かくそうこうたい - alternation of nuclear phases
  • - きそたいしゃ - basal metabolism
  • - ちいきだいひょう - regional representation
  • - じんだいすぎ - lignitized Japanese cedar/lignitised Japanese cedar
  • オリンピック - きんだいオリンピック - modern Olympics
  • - げんだいいりょう - modern medicine
  • - せんこうだい - fee for a geisha's time
  • - せいだい - prosperous era
  • - しじだいめいし - demonstrative pronoun
  • - ちしつじだい - geological age/prehistory
  • - じんだいもじ - ancient Japanese characters (regarded today as created at a much more recent date)
  • - きんだいしゅぎ - modernism
  • - とうだい - the present age/these days/(present) head of the family
  • - ばだい - rent/cover charge
  • - きんだいこっか - a modern state or nation
  • - きんだいぶんがく - modern literature
  • - きんだいし - modern poetry/modern-style poetry
  • - おおじだい - old-fashioned/antiquated/anachronistic
  • エネルギー - エネルギーたいしゃ - energy metabolism
  • - きんだいごしゅきょうぎ - the modern pentathlon
  • - きんだいげき - modern drama/modern theater/modern WindowsXP
  • - なんぼくちょうじだい - period of the northern and southern dynasties (in China, 5th-6th c. CE in Japan, 1336-92)
  • - たいこだい - Archaeozoic (Archeozoic) Era
  • わりわり | わりわり - いれかわりたちかわり - by turns
  • - くすりだい - charge for medicine
  • - せいだい - magnificent imperial reign
  • - とじしろ - binding margin/gutter
  • - はなだい - price of flowers/fee for a woman's companionship
  • - じだいしちょう - thought of the times
  • - ようねんじだい - childhood
  • バブル - バブルけいざいじだい - bubble economy era
  • - じだいしょうせつ - historical novel
  • れ - じだいおくれ - old-fashioned
  • - かんけいだいめいし - relative pronoun
  • - しせいだい - Archaeozoic (Archeozoic) Era
  • - じだいしょく - characteristics of an age
  • - じだいかんかく - sensitivity to the times/sense of the times
  • - ほんだい - money for books
  • - だいひょうしゃいん - senior partner
  • わり - だいかわり - taking over (store or family's headship)
  • - だいぎせい - representative system
  • - じょうもんじだい - the Jomon period
  • - かけうりだいきん - credit account
  • - だいひょうとりしまりやく - representative director (i.e. someone chosen by the board of directors from among the directors to actually represent the company in its dealings with the outside world)
  • わりこ - かわりばんこ - alternately
  • - ねんだいもの - antique
  • - じだいもの - antiques/period dramas
  • - じだいせいしん - spirit of the age/zeitgeist
  • - だいりはは - surrogate mother
  • - だいすうほうていしき - algebraic equation
  • - しょくのうだいひょうせい - vocational representation system
  • - かたしろ - paper, cloth, wood, etc. representation of a sacred object | paper doll used in Shinto purification rites
  • - だいようきょういん - substitute teacher
  • - だいりせんそう - war by proxy
  • - だいすうかんすう - algebraic function
  • - だいだいひょう - main (switchboard) number/main telephone (phone) number
  • - せんたくだい - laundry charges
  • - ぶっしつたいしゃ - metabolism
  • - ほうていだいりにん - statutory representative/legal representative
  • - げんだいし - contemporary history
  • - こふんじだい - Tumulus period (of Japanese history)
  • - じだいこうしょう - background research/research into the period
  • - だいぎいんかい - conference of representatives
  • - べんとうだい - lunch money
  • - しだい - magazine's price
  • - げんしりょくじだい - atomic age
  • - げんだいばん - modern version (e.g. of Italian Renaissance architecture)
  • - まつだいもの - durable article
  • - ふろだい - fee charged at a public bath
  • - せだいこうたい - alternation of generations
  • - せいねんじだい - (one's) youth/one's younger days
  • - くいしろ - food expenses
  • わる - なりかわる - to do in place of or on behalf of (someone)
  • - げんだいげき - contemporary drama
  • わり | わり - いれかわり - substitution/replacement/shifting/change
  • - おおみよ - glorious reign of the Emperor
  • - おやのだい - one's parents' generation
  • わりにる - あるくかわりにはしる - to run instead of walk
  • - げんだいえいご - current (present-day) English
  • - くすりのしろ - cost of medicine
  • れ - こだいぎれ - ancient cloth fragment
  • えた - さかえたじだい - prosperous age
  • - ぎょくだい - time charge for a geisha
  • る - しんだいをする - to lose a person's fortune
  • む - じだいとともにあゆむ - to move along with the times
  • わり - じゅうしょろくがわり - substitute for an address book
  • - けんさくしろ - grinding allowance
  • - さんぎだいひょう - representative of Gifu and Mie prefectures
  • ける - しんだいをかたむける - to squander one's fortunes
  • - みたましろ - something worshiped as a symbol for the spirit of the dead
  • - せんきゅうひゃくねんだい - the 1900s
  • わる - だいがかわる - to change hands/to be succeeded
  • - たいしょうのよ - Taisho era
  • わりとして - ちちのかわりとして - in place of one's father
  • - ちよじょ - name of a haiku poetess
  • - しょうだい - glorious reign/enlightened era
  • - じだいのへい - abuses of the times
  • エネルギー - だいたいエネルギー - alternative (substitute) energy
  • - だいすうてきわ - algebraic sum
  • わる - だいだいつたわる - to be transmitted (handed down) from generation to generation
  • わってう - ちちおやにかわっていう - to speak for one's father
  • | - とりしろ - portion/one's share
  • - ひじりのみよ - highly-esteemed emperor's reign