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Translingual [edit]

Stroke order
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Etymology [edit]

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic  (person) + phonetic 

弋 and 代 were near-homophones in Old Chinese; Baxter-Sagart give *lək for 弋 and *lˤək-s for 代 (the -s is a suffix). See also .

Han character [edit]

(radical 9 +3, 5 strokes, cangjie input 人戈心 (OIP), four-corner 23240, composition)

  1. replace, replacement (of person or generation)
  2. era
  3. generation

Derived characters [edit]

References [edit]

  • KangXi: page 93, character 11
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 386
  • Dae Jaweon: page 197, character 7
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 113, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+4EE3

Cantonese [edit]

Hanzi [edit]

(Yale doi6)


Japanese [edit]

Noun [edit]

(hiragana しろ, romaji shiro)

  1. substitution
  2. price, cost, charge
  3. shiro, a unit of land

(hiragana だい, romaji dai)

  1. price
  2. generation
  3. era

(hiragana , romaji yo)

  1. world, society
  2. age, generation, era of rule

Alternative forms [edit]

  • (alternative form for dai only)
  • (alternative form for yo only)

Counter [edit]

(hiragana だい, romaji -dai)

  1. generation of a royal family
  2. era, age, decade

Suffix [edit]

(hiragana だい, romaji -dai)

  1. charge, fare, rate, fee, price, rent
  2. (indicating years spanning a specific period) -ies, -hundreds

Kanji [edit]

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings [edit]

Compounds [edit]


Korean [edit]

Hanja [edit]

(hangeul , revised dae, McCune-Reischauer tae)


Mandarin [edit]

Hanzi [edit]

(pinyin dài (dai4), Wade-Giles tai4)

Compounds [edit]


Vietnamese [edit]

Han character [edit]

(đại, đời, rượi, đãi)

References [edit]