代

Information about character(s)

Radical: 人
Radical Strokes: 2
Additional Strokes: 3
Total Strokes: 5

Pronunciation

Pinyin: dài
Cantonese: doi6
JapaneseKun: KAWARU YO SHIRO
JapaneseOn: DAI TAI
Korean: TAY
Vietnamese: đại

Dictionary definitions

Unicode: replace, replacement (of person or generation); era, generation

CE-Dict: to substitute/to act on behalf of others/to replace/generation/dynasty/age/period/(historical) era/(geological) eon

Soothill: Instead of, in place of, acting for, for; e. g. 代香 to offer incense in place of another; a generation, v. 世代.

21 Century bidirectional dictionary: 1.a generation
2.a dynasty in Chinese history
3.temporarily acting (for)
4.taking the place of

21 Century bidirectional science and technology dictionary: era - 地質
generation - 生物

朗道漢英字典 - Lang Dao: era; generation; take the place of
【電】 generation

懶蟲簡明漢英詞典: era

湘雅醫學專業詞典: era;generation

說文解字 - Shuowen: 《人部》代更也。从人弋聲。

康熙字典文字版 【子集中】【人字部】代
【唐韻】徒耐切【集韻】【韻會】待戴切【正韻】度耐切，𠀤音岱。更也，替也。【書·臯陶謨】天工人其代之。【莊子·逍遙遊】許由曰：庖人雖不治庖，尸祝不越俎而代之。　又世也。【家語】古之王者，易代攺號，取法五行。　又不還曰代。　又國名。趙之先有代國。【前漢·地理志】代郡亳丘有五原關。【應劭曰】古代國。又州名。漢代郡屬幽州，魏攺爲州。　又姓。周代舉，明代賢。　又【方書】脈𠋫有代。【史記·倉公傳】齊侍御史成病頭痛。脈法曰：代則絡脈有過，其代絕而脈賁者，病得之酒且內。王叔和曰：來數而中止，不能自還，因而復動者名代。　又叶徒帝切，音地。【楚辭·九章】雖有西施之美容兮，讒妒入以自代。願𨻰情以白行兮，得罪過之不意。　又叶湯的切，音剔。【揚子·太𤣥經】將軍入虛，莫之得也。出險登丘，莫之代也。

Buddhism words and phrases in place of

Japanese Places Shiro (loc)

だい
Dai (loc)

Japanese-English River and Water Resources Glossary era

CF-Dict: suppléant par intérim/génération/remplacer/substituer

Han-De-Dict: ersetzen (u.E.) (V)/Zeitalter, Generation, Ära, Epoche (u.E.)