代
dài HSK3

replace

代 dài
to substitute prepositionverb
to take the place of; to act on behalf of another; to replace

他很慷慨地代我们全付了钱。

tā hěn kāng​kǎi de dài wǒ​men quán fù le qián.

He generously paid for us all.

era (historical) nounadjective
a historical period; a dynasty or stage in history
generation nounmeasure word
a step in a line of family descent; the period of time between the birth of parents and their children

他们是同一代人。

tā​men shì tóng​yī dài rén.

They are of the same generation.

acting
(bound form) serving temporarily in a position or role
surname
a Chinese surname
Dai state
a state during the Sixteen Kingdoms period (310–376 AD) located in modern-day Shanxi and Inner Mongolia
era (geological)
(geology) a unit of geological time that is a subdivision of an eon and is further divided into periods

Frequency
Character
Written text
174th most common 1197.6 per million
Movie subtitles
453rd most common 323.3 per million appears in 76% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
39.2 per million appears in 14% of films
Written text
133.7 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 3
Strokes
5
Unicode
U+4EE3

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)