# 代 generation / instead of

(personleft) + (rituals)
★★★★★
5 strokes
DUPE JERK

## Onyomi

DAI |

## Mnemonic

| Back in the '70s, they had a ritual where the older generation of people DIED , and the new generation took its place. I think it was called punk.

## Kunyomi

( が ) か＊わる | something is exchanged or one person succeeds another. A robot replaces a human, (who is made into Soylent Green) ★★★★☆
か＊わり ( に ) | instead of. As in, "Pay with your booty instead of money." ★★★★☆

## Jukugo

代表(だいひょう) | representative ★★☆☆☆ 代 (generation / instead of) + 表 (express) = 代表 (representative) political delegate or group represtntative
世代(せだい) | generation ☆☆☆☆☆ 世 (society) + 代 (generation / instead of) = 世代 (generation) a generation (as in, generation gap, the me generation, all that stuff)

## Lookalikes

| Meaning | Hint | Radical
--- | --- | --- | ---
代 | generation / instead of | dot is on the outside |
付 | stick to | GLUE - dot is on the inside! | 寸

"Stick to" is the only kanji where the dot is on the inside, so you could think of it as a dot of GLUE making the left and right right radicals stick to each other.

## Used In

- 貸
- 袋

## Synonyms

exchange 替える 換える 代える
out of date, old-fashioned 時代遅れの 古くさい 古めかしい 旧式の 廃れる
slowly, gradually 段々 少しずつ じょじょ 次代に
to switch 代わる 替わる 換わる