Japanese word
現代
げんだい
In your course · Chapter 52
- Part of speech
- noun
- Level
- B2
- Frequency
- No. 472 in the course corpus
Meanings
- modern era
Source: Tonada course
Kanji
- 現
- On reading:
- ゲン
- Kun reading:
- あらわ.す、あらわ.れる、うつ.つ、うつつ
- Meanings:
- present, existing, actual
- 代
- On reading:
- タイ、ダイ
- Kun reading:
- -が.わり、-がわ.り、か.える、か.わり、か.わる、かわ.り、かわ.る、しろ、よ
- Meanings:
- substitute, change, convert, replace, period, age, counter for decades of ages, eras, etc., generation, charge, rate, fee
Source: KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0 (EDRDG Licence))