(dài) - represent, substitute, generation in Mandarin
dàiTraditional: 代
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Translation
represent, substitute, generation
Word origin
A phono-semantic character: the person radical 亻signals one person standing in for another, and 弋 (yì) supplies the sound, giving the meanings to substitute, to represent and a generation.
- Origin
- phono-semantic
- Root
- 亻(person radical) + 弋 (yì, phonetic)
Stroke order
代
Examples
。
He goes to the meeting on behalf of the company.
。
This is modern art.
。
The young generation is different.
。
I will handle this matter on your behalf.
课。
He is taking the class for the teacher.
代 (dài) means represent, substitute, or generation, anchoring 代表 (dàibiǎo) and 现代 (xiàndài, modern).
Appears in 2 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 代.
Used in
Grammar articles
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