Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- dài
English
- replace, replacement (of person or generation)
- to be a substitute for; to act on behalf of; to replace; to substitute
- to be in place of; to take the place of; to substitute; to act for; to be on behalf of
- historical period; times; era
- quantifier of generation, span of years
- era, generation
- generation; dynasty; age; period; (historical) era; (geological) eon
- phase; stage; batch
粵語
- 同代替、代表
- 歷史時期；時代；年代
- 根據人嘅年齡、輩份嘅分類法
- 事物嘅階段或者批次
As a component in · 54
Words containing 代
- 現代jin6 doi6
Hyundai, South Korean company
- 代理doi6 lei5
to act on behalf of sb in a responsible position
- 取代ceoi2 doi6
to replace
- 當代dong1 doi6
the present age
- 交代gaau1 doi6
to transfer (duties to sb else)
- 代表doi6 biu2
representative
- 時代si4 doi6
Time, US weekly news magazine
- 現代化jin6 doi6 faa3
modernization
- 年代nin4 doi6
a decade of a century (e.g. the Sixties)
- 古代gu2 doi6
ancient times
- 代碼doi6 maa5
code
- 代價doi6 gaa3
price
- 一代jat1 doi6
an era; an age; a generation
- 代言人doi6 jin4 jan4
spokesperson
- 代替doi6 tai3
to replace; to take the place of
- 近代gan6 doi6
the not-very-distant past
- 替代tai3 doi6
to substitute for
- 後代hau6 doi6
descendant; progeny
- 世代sai3 doi6
for many generations
- 歷代lik6 doi6
successive generations
- 代號doi6 hou6
code name
- 代言doi6 jin4
to be a spokesperson
- 五代ng5 doi6
Five Dynasties, period of history between the fall of the Tang dynasty (907) and the founding of the Song dynasty (960), when five would-be dynasties were established in quick succession in North China
- 代購doi6 kau3
to buy (on behalf of sb)