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JLPT N4 SL3 5 strokes Frequency: #66

Meanings

Substitute, Change, Convert, Replace, Period, Age, Counter For Decades Of Ages, Eras, Etc., Generation, Charge, Rate, Fee

Radicals

Decomposition

⿰亻弋

Etymology

Ideographic: A man 亻 caught 弋 by the passing of time

Writing Practice

Stroke 0 / 5

Stroke Order

1 diagonal top-right-to-bottom-left
2 vertical bottom-right-to-top-left
3 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left
4 hook right-to-left
5 dot right-to-left
On'yomi (Chinese reading)
ダイ dai
タイ tai
Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)
かわ kawa
yo
ka
しろ shiro

Words Using This Kanji

832 words total
Other (20 words)
大御所時代 おおごしょじだい

Ōgosho period (between the Kansei Reforms and the Tempo Reforms, approx. 1787-1843)

弘仁貞観時代 こうにんじょうがんじだい

Kōnin-Jōgan period (of Japanese art history; approx. 794-894 CE)

織豊時代 しょくほうじだい

Shokuhō period (i.e. the Azuchi-Momoyama period, approx. 1568-1600)

先カンブリア時代 せんカンブリアじだい

Precambrian era

天平時代 てんぴょうじだい

Tenpyō period (esp. used as a period of art history, 710-794 CE)

文化文政時代 ぶんかぶんせいじだい

Bunka-Bunsei period (approx. 1804-1830)

源平時代 げんぺいじだい

Gempei period (late 11th century-late 12th century CE)

貞観時代 じょうがんじだい

Jōgan period (of art history; 859-877 CE)

田沼時代 たぬまじだい

Tanuma period (1767-1786)

東山時代 ひがしやまじだい

Higashiyama period (cultural and artistic period of the mid-Muromachi)

放射年代 ほうしゃねんだい

radiometric age

代表電話 だいひょうでんわ

switchboard

先縄文時代 せんじょうもんじだい

pre-Jomon period (i.e. the preceramic period)

王朝時代 おうちょうじだい

Dynastic period (the Nara period and esp. the Heian period, characterized by the rule of the emperor as opposed to shogunate)

三国時代 さんごくじだい

Three Kingdoms period (of Chinese history, 220 CE-280 CE)

正統カリフ時代 せいとうカリフじだい

Rashidun period (period of the Rightly Guided Caliphs; 632-661 CE)

大空位時代 だいくういじだい

Great Interregnum (period of the Holy Roman Empire; approx. 1254-1273)

白鳳時代 はくほうじだい

Hakuhō period (esp. used as a period of art history, approx. 645-710 CE)

吉野朝時代 よしのちょうじだい

Yoshino period (Japan's Northern and Southern Courts period, esp. from the viewpoint of the legitimacy of the Southern Court, 1336-1392)

安土時代 あづちじだい

Azuchi period (first half of the Azuchi-Momoyama period, 1568-1582)