ダイ, タイ, か.わる, かわ.る, かわ.り, -がわ.り, か.える, よ, しろ
substitute, change, convert, replace, period, age, generation, charge, rate, fee

This kanji has 5 strokes: 2 in the "person" radical (ひと) and 3 other strokes.

Sample compounds (61) :


  1. しろ
    price, materials, substitution
  2. りに
    かわりに
    instead of
  3. える
    かえる
    to exchange, to interchange, to substitute, to replace
  4. わり
    おかわり
    second helping
  5. わりに
    かわりに
    instead of
  6. そのわり
    そのかわり
    instead, but (on the other hand)

  7. まんだい
    thousands of years, eternity, all generations

  8. こうたい
    (vs) exchange (something)

  9. だいひょう
    (vs) representative, representation, delegation, type, example, model

  10. せんだい
    thousand years, very long period

  11. じゅうだい
    successive generations

  12. こうたいで
    alternately, by turns

  13. だいだい
    for generations, hereditary, generation after generation

  14. だいだい
    for generations, hereditary, generation after generation

  15. かわるがわる
    alternately

  16. かわるがわる
    alternately
  17. わるわる
    かわるがわる
    alternately
  18. わるわる
    かわるがわる
    alternately

  19. だいにん
    agency, acting official

  20. だいきゅう
    compensatory holiday

  21. かわりあう
    to relieve each other, to take turns

  22. だいい
    substitution

  23. だいか
    price, cost, charge

  24. だいしょう
    compensation, indemnification, reparation, consideration
  25. わる
    いれかわる
    (vi) to change places, to relieve one another

  26. じだい
    the next era

  27. じゅうだい
    the teens (10-19), teenage, the tenth generation
  28. エジプト
    こだいエジプト
    ancient Egypt

  29. じょうだい
    ancient times

  30. れきだい
    successive generations, successive emperors

  31. だいさん
    visiting a temple for another

  32. だいひん
    substitute article

  33. だいいん
    proxy

  34. だいち
    substitute land

  35. じょうだい
    chamberlain, castle keeper

  36. だいだい
    (abbr) main telephone number

  37. だいやく
    important mission, heavy role, substitute actor, stand-in, double

  38. かわりやく
    substitute actor, stand-in, double

  39. かたがわり
    shouldering another's debt

  40. だいすう
    algebra

  41. だいたい
    change of ownership, substitute, subrogation

  42. だいがえ
    change of ownership, substitute, subrogation

  43. つきがわり
    a new month starts

  44. さかだい
    alcohol expenses

  45. しろもの
    thing, article, goods, fellow, affair

  46. げんだい
    (a-no) nowadays, modern times, present-day

  47. だいむ
    vicarious management

  48. かみよ
    ancient time

  49. だいのう
    payment for another

  50. だいしょ
    amanuensis, scribe

  51. だいかん
    replacement warship

  52. しょだい
    first generation, founder

  53. だいげん
    advocacy, pleading by proxy, speaking for another, attorney

  54. だいしん
    doctor's assistance, doctor's assistant, locum tenens

  55. だいどく
    reading for another

  56. たいしゃ
    (abbr) renewal, regeneration, metabolism

  57. だいこう
    substitute, lecturing

  58. だいそう
    substitute runner

  59. だいへん
    (vs) answer a roll call for another

  60. きんだい
    present day
  61. こに
    かわりばんこに
    alternately
Kanji Character : 代
Kuten Encoding : 3469
SJIS Encoding : 4265
Unicode Encoding : 4ee3
Old Nelson Index : 364
Radical Number : 9
Frequency Ranking : 84
Gakken Index : 68
Grade Level : 3
Halpern Index : 30
Heisig Index : 1005
Henshall Index : 338
New Nelson Index : 125
O'Neil Index : 125
Stroke Count : 5
Spahn & Hadamitzky Kanji Dictionary Index : 2a3.3
Spahn & Hadamitzky Radical Strokes : 2
Spahn & Hadamitzky Other Strokes : 3
Spahn & Hadamitzky Character ID : a
Spahn & Hadamitzky kanji Number : 3
Spahn & Hadamitzky Kanji & Kana Index : 256
SKIP Code : 1-2-3
De Roo Code : 2156
Four Corner Code : 2324.0
Korean reading : dae
Pinyin reading : dai4
Morohashi Index String : 386
Morohashi Volume and Page String : 1.0611
Morohashi Index Number : 386
Morohashi Page : 611
Morohashi Volume : 1
Dictionary Codes
  1. R2156
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