Chinese Character Wiki
代

dài

replace

Phonosemantic compound. 亻 represents the meaning and 弋 represents the sound.

Components
亻 meaning component

亻  Meaning component

rén

  

person

亻 is a component form of 人.

弋 sound component

弋  Sound component

yì

  

to shoot

Evolution

代 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
代 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
代 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

代  

dài

replace, replacement (of person or generation); era, generation; to substitute; to act on behalf of others; to replace; generation; dynasty; age; period; (historical) era; (geological) eon

Most common words with 代
Freq.
Word
Meaning

代表

delegate

时代

age

年代

age

代

to substitute

现代

modern times

Component uses

Sound component in 6 characters (1 verified)

袋 貸 贷 黛 岱 玳

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*lˤək-s

dojH

dài

replace


Statistics

HSK level 3

Appears in 76.0372% of movies

453rd most common character in movies

174th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

5

Unicode

U+4EE3

Shuowen

“代，更也。从人，弋聲。”


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