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代かわり
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Meanings
Noun
No-adjective
1. substitute; replacement; substituting; replacing
2. stand-in; proxy; alternate; deputy; relief; successor
Noun
3. compensation; exchange; return (usu. as ...～に)
4. another helping; second helping; seconds; refill (usu. as お～)
5. upcoming program; upcoming programme (Abbreviation, esp. 替わり, 替り)
Other spellings
替かわり代かわり替かわりかわり
Kanji used
代substitute
Kanji in other spellings
替replace
Pitch accent
かわり
Used in vocabulary
日ひ替がわり
changing every day
Noun
身み代がわり
substitution (for someone else); substitute; stand-in; scapegoat; sacrifice
Noun
肩かた代がわり
taking over (another's debt, work); shouldering someone else's burden; subrogation
Noun
代だい替がわり
taking over (e.g. store or family's headship); subrogation; substitution of one person for another (usu. a creditor)
Noun
入いれ替かわり
substitution; replacement; shifting; change
Noun
早はや変がわり
quick change (of costume); quick transformation; turning suddenly into; (sudden) metamorphosis
Noun
入いれ代かわり立たち代かわり
one after another; continuously; incessantly; in succession; by turns
Expression
親おや代がわり
acting as a foster parent; caring for another's child; foster parent
Noun
代かわり映ばえ
change for the better; improvement; looking better (than before)
Noun
月つき替がわり
turn of the month; monthly change; monthly replacement; changing every month
Noun
出で替がわり
periodical relief or replacement of workers
Noun
代かわり代がわり
alternately; in turn; one after the other
Adverb
Examples112
Instead of going myself, I sent a letter.
Using a doubled-up cushion in place of a pillow I lie down on the hard wooden floor with nothing but a carpet spread over it.
I will go there in place of you.
I wish you to go there instead.
He went there instead of me.
Let me go in place of him.