代 dài

1. dài verb to represent; to substitute; to replace
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: In the sense of 替代 (Guoyu '代' v 1; Unihan '代')
2. dài noun dynasty
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 朝代 (Guoyu '代' n 1)
3. dài measure word generation
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Quantity
   Notes: (Guoyu '代' n 3)
4. dài noun generation; age; period; era
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Time
   Notes: In the sense of 年代 (Guoyu '代' n 2; Unihan '代')
5. dài verb to exchange; to swap; to switch
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: 代 is synonymous with 交换 in this sense.
6. dài noun a successor
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 继任的人 (Guoyu '代' n 4)
7. dài proper noun Dai
   Domain: History 历史 , Subdomain: China , Concept: State 国
   Notes: One of the 五胡十六國 Sixteen Kingdoms of Five non-Han people; a Xianbei state (Guoyu '代' n 5; Wikipedia '代 (十六国)')
8. dài proper noun Dai
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Names , Concept: Surname 姓氏
   Notes: (Guoyu '代' n 6)
9. dài verb to alternate
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 交替 (Guoyu '代' v 2)
10. dài verb to succeed
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 继承 (Guoyu '代' v 3)
11. dài adverb alternating
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Guoyu '代' adv)

Contained in

• 一代不如一代 to be getting worse with each generation
• 代之以 (has been) replaced with; (its) place has been taken by
• 现代派(現代派) modernist faction; modernists
• 交换代数学(交換代數學) commutative algebra
• 分解代谢(分解代謝) catabolism; metabolic breaking down and waste disposal; dissimilation
• 抽象代数(抽象代數) abstract algebra
• 代表队(代表隊) delegation
• 替代 to substitute for
• 传宗接代(傳宗接代) to carry on one's ancestral line
• 代班 to take over somebody's job; to substitute for
• 年代学(年代學) chronology (the science of determining the dates of past events)
• 指代 to refer to; to be used in place of
• 更代 substitution; replacing former general; change of leader
• 独二代(獨二代) second generation only child
• 代语(代語) synonym between dialects ; a replacement answer
• 人称代词(人稱代詞) personal pronoun
• 海权时代(海權時代) Age of Discovery; Age of Exploration
• 代表作 representative work (of an author or artist)
• 科学技术现代化(科學技術現代化) modernization of science and technology
• 代利斯 Dallys, Algerian seaport and naval base
• 亲代(親代) parent's generation; previous generation
• 现代(現代) modern times; modern age ; modern ; Hyundai
• 法定代表人 legal representative of a corporation (e.g. chairman of the board of a company, principal of a school etc)
• 代书(代書) to write for somebody else; a lawyer who writes legal documents for his clients ; a lawyer who writes legal documents for his clients
• 代罪 to redeem oneself; to make up for one's misdeeds
• 代劳(代勞) to do something in place of somebody else
• 代孕 surrogate pregnancy
• 现代新儒家(現代新儒家) Modern New Confucianism
• 代数几何学(代數幾何學) algebraic geometry
• 以言代法 to substitute one's words for the law; high-handedly putting one's orders above the law
• 春秋代谢(春秋代謝) springs following summers
• 富二代 children of entrepreneurs who became wealthy under Deng Xiaoping's economic reforms in the 1980s
• 代志(代誌) matter; thing
• 代替 to replace; to substitute for
• 关系代词(關係代詞) relative pronoun

Also contained in

金代 、 首席代表 、 秦代 、 时代华纳 、 鎌仓时代 、 代郡 、 印度列国时代 、 代码 、 代宗 、 刘宋时代 、 代码片断 、 六朝时代 、 德川时代 、 五代 、 恶意代码 、 代州

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Truncated for common words

• 卷九十七　列傳第八十五:　西域 Volume 97 Biographies 85: Western Region History of the Northern Dynasties 北史 — count: 54
• 卷102 西域 Volume 102: Western Regions Book of Wei 魏書 — count: 53
• 卷二十五 志第五: 禮儀五 Volume 25 Treatises 5: Rites 5 Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — count: 52
• 卷二十九　燕一 Chapter 29: Yan I Stratagems of the Warring States 戰國策 — count: 49
• 卷三十　燕二 Chapter 30: Yan II Stratagems of the Warring States 戰國策 — count: 44
• 《趙世家》 House of Zhao Records of the Grand Historian 史記 — count: 34
• 卷二十五　列傳第十三:　古弼 張黎 劉潔 丘堆 娥清 伊珝 乙瑰 周幾 豆代田 車伊洛 王洛兒 車路頭 盧魯元 陳建 來大干 宿石 萬安國 周觀 尉撥 陸真 呂洛拔 薛彪子 尉元 慕容白曜 和其奴 苟頹 宇文福 Volume 25 Biographies 13: Gu Bi, Zhang Li, Liu Jie, Qiu Dui, E Qing, Yi Xu, Yi Gui, Zhou Ji, Dou Daitian, Che Yiluo, Wang Luo'er, Che Lutou, Lu Luyuan, Chen Jian, Lai Dagan, Su Shi, Wan Anguo, Zhou Guan, Wei Bo, Lu Zhen, Lu Luoba, Xue Biaozi, Wei Yuan, Murong Baiyao, He Qinu, Guo Tui, Yu Wenfu History of the Northern Dynasties 北史 — count: 29
• 卷八十七 西羌傳 Volume 87: Treatise on the Western Qiang Book of Later Han 後漢書 — count: 28
• 《高祖功臣侯者年表》 Yearly Table of the Officials who became Marquises in the Time of Gaozu Records of the Grand Historian 史記 — count: 25
• 卷十七下 本紀第十七下: 文宗下 Volume 17 Annals 17: Wenzong 2 Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — count: 25

Collocations

• 燕代 (燕代) 以利燕代胡貉與西河之民 — Mozi 墨子, 卷四 兼愛中 Book 4 - Universal Love II — count: 6
• 代哭 (代哭) 乃官代哭 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《喪大記》 The Greater Record of Mourning Rites — count: 6
• 代胁 (代脅) 代胁一 — The Book of Etiquette and Ceremonial 儀禮, 少牢馈食礼 第十六 16. Rites of the secondary pen victim food offering — count: 6
• 苏代 (蘇代) 故蘇代非齊王 — Han Feizi 韓非子, 外儲說右下第三十五 Chapter 35: A Collection of Sayings VI — count: 5
• 代人 (代人) 代人忘其難得 — Guanzi 管子, 輕重戊第八十四 Chapter 84: Weight V — count: 4
• 足以代 (足以代) 祿足以代其耕也 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《王制》 Royal Regulations — count: 4
• 代子 (代子) 使子張代子良于楚 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 宣公 Lord Xuan — count: 3
• 四代 (四代) 四代之樂器也 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《明堂位》 The Places in the Hall of Distinction — count: 3
• 请代 (請代) 請代 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 莊公 Lord Zhang — count: 3
• 代御 (代禦) 代御執轡 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 宣公 Lord Xuan — count: 3