代表

Character by character

• 代dài5 strokesHSK 3replace, replacement (of person or generation); era, generation
• 表biǎo8 strokesHSK 2 traditional 錶show, express, manifest, display

Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.

Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 代表. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

• 表现biǎo xiànHSK 3

  to show; to show off; to display; to manifest; expression; manifestation; show; display; performance (at work etc); behavior

• 表示biǎo shì

  to express; to show; to say; to state; to indicate; to mean

• 表演biǎo yǎnHSK 3

  play; show; performance; exhibition; to perform; to act; to demonstrate

• 表biǎoHSK 2

  exterior surface; family relationship via females; to show (one's opinion); a model; a table (listing information); a form; a meter (measuring sth)

• 时代shí dàiHSK 3

  age; era; epoch; period (in one's life)

• 年代nián dàiHSK 3

  a decade of a century (e.g. the Sixties); age; era; period

• 代dàiHSK 3

  to substitute; to act on behalf of others; to replace; generation; dynasty; age; period; (historical) era; (geological) eon

• 表达biǎo dáHSK 3

  to express; to convey

• 表明biǎo míngHSK 3

  to make clear; to make known; to state clearly; to indicate; known

• 发表fā biǎoHSK 3

  to issue; to publish

• 表情biǎo qíngHSK 4

  (facial) expression; to express one's feelings

• 现代xiàn dàiHSK 3

  modern times; modern age; modern era

• 表面biǎo miànHSK 3

  surface; face; outside; appearance

• 代价dài jiàHSK 5

  price; cost; consideration (in share dealing)

• 代理dài lǐHSK 5

  to act on behalf of sb in a responsible position; to act as an agent or proxy; surrogate; (computing) proxy

• 代替dài tìHSK 4

  to replace; to take the place of

• 外表wài biǎoHSK 7

  external; outside; outward appearance

• 取代qǔ dàiHSK 7

  to replace; to supersede; to supplant; (chemistry) substitution

• 替代tì dàiHSK 4

  to substitute for; to replace; to supersede

• 古代gǔ dàiHSK 3

  ancient times

• 手表shǒu biǎoHSK 2

  wristwatch

• 交代jiāo dàiHSK 5

  to transfer (duties to sb else); to give instructions; to tell (sb to do sth); to explain; to give an account; to brief; to confess; to account for oneself; (jocular) to come to a bad end

• 表决biǎo juéHSK 7

  to decide by vote; to vote

• 代理人dài lǐ rénHSK 7

  agent