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

• 现代汉语常用字表(現代漢語常用字表) Commonly Used Characters in Modern Chinese
• 六十年代 the sixties; the 1960s
• 代步车(代步車) vehicle; (more specifically) mobility vehicle (mobility scooter, electric wheelchair, Segway etc)
• 代收货款(代收貨款) collect on delivery (COD)
• 代代 from generation to generation; generation after generation
• 布尔代数(布爾代數) Boolean algebra
• 新陈代谢(新陳代謝) metabolism
• 划时代(劃時代) epoch-marking
• 中石器时代(中石器時代) Mesolithic Era
• 年代学(年代學) chronology (the science of determining the dates of past events)
• 分手代理 break-up agent, person who acts for somebody who wishes to terminate a relationship but does not have the heart to do so
• 合成代谢(合成代謝) anabolism; constructive metabolism (using energy to make proteins etc); assimilation
• 代理商 an agent
• 四个现代化(四個現代化) Deng Xiaoping's four modernizations ; Deng Xiaoping's four modernizations practiced from the 1980s (possibly planned together with Zhou Enlai), namely: modernization of industry, agriculture, national defense and science and technology
• 三代同堂 three generations under one roof
• 代数函数论(代數函數論) algebraic function theory
• 代替 to replace; to substitute for
• 现代性(現代性) modernity
• 代罪羔羊 scapegoat
• 代数量(代數量) algebraic quantity
• 探索时代(探索時代) Age of Discovery; Age of Exploration
• 代沟(代溝) generation gap
• 代理 agent; a surrogate ; to act for
• 代志(代誌) matter; thing
• 代理人 agent
• 独二代(獨二代) second generation only child
• 代劳(代勞) to do something in place of somebody else
• 代填 to fill in a form for somebody else
• 初等代数(初等代數) elementary algebra
• 替代燃料 alternative fuel
• 代言人 spokesperson
• 第三人称代名词(第三人稱代名詞) third person
• 现代派(現代派) modernist faction; modernists
• 代罪 to redeem oneself; to make up for one's misdeeds
• 时代精神(時代精神) zeitgeist

Also contained in

唐代 、 借代 、 时代曲 、 中国共产党第十六次全国代表大会 、 商代 、 新五代史 、 首席代表 、 代码页 、 克朗代克 、 铁器时代 、 岭外代答 、 战国时代 、 代字 、 源代码 、 恶意代码 、 秦代

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• 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
• 卷二百五十七 列傳第一百四十五 張鶴鳴 董漢儒 趙彥 王洽 梁廷棟 熊明遇 張鳳翼 陳新甲 馮元飇 Volume 257 Biographies 145: Zhang Heming, Dong Hanru, Zhao Yan, Wang Qia, Liang Tingdong, Xiong Mingyu, Zhang Fengyi, Chen Xinjia, Feng Yuanbiao History of Ming 明史 — count: 25
• 《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

Collocations

• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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