古代

Character by character

• 古gǔ5 strokesHSK 3old, classic, ancient
• 代dài5 strokesHSK 3replace, replacement (of person or generation); era, generation

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Words with the same characters

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

• 代表dài biǎoHSK 3

  representative; delegate; to represent; to stand for; on behalf of; in the name of

• 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

• 现代xiàn dàiHSK 3

  modern times; modern age; modern era

• 古gǔHSK 3

  ancient; old; paleo-

• 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

• 古老gǔ lǎoHSK 5

  ancient; old; age-old

• 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

• 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

• 古怪gǔ guàiHSK 7

  strange; weird; eccentric; bizarre

• 古典gǔ diǎnHSK 6

  classical

• 代理人dài lǐ rénHSK 7

  agent

• 当代dāng dàiHSK 5

  the present age; the contemporary era

• 后代hòu dàiHSK 7

  descendant; progeny; posterity; later ages; later generations

• 一代yī dàiHSK 6

  generation

• 代言人dài yán rénHSK 7

  spokesperson

• 古董gǔ dǒngHSK 7

  curio; antique

• 代号dài hàoHSK 7

  code name

• 古人gǔ rénHSK 7

  people of ancient times; the ancients; extinct human species such as Homo erectus or Homo neanderthalensis; (literary) deceased person

• 现代化xiàn dài huàHSK 3

  modernization