だい
Meanings
Noun
Suffix
1. charge; cost; price
2. generation; age; (school) year; cohort; reign
3. era
4. a representative of; on behalf of; for (someone)
after someone's name or title
5. switchboard number
used after a phone number
Counter
6. counter for decades of ages, eras, etc.
7. counter for generations (of inheritors to a throne, etc.)
Noun
Abbreviation
8. proxy application company
9. pronoun
used in dictionaries, etc.
Pitch accent
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Used in vocabulary (211 in total)
pinch-hitting; pinch hitter; performing a duty in place of someone else; proxy
period; epoch; the times; those days; oldness; ancientness
visiting a temple for another
representation; agency; proxy; proxy; agent; representative
rent; cover charge
representation; representative; exemplification; typification; leader; switchboard number
previous generation (of a family); previous head of the family; predecessor; previous age; previous generation
local governor (Edo period); local magistrate; bailiff; deputy official (Middle Ages); acting administrator
alternative plan
substitution
all ages to come; all generations; eternity
taking turns; relieving the guard
generation; lifetime; age
ghost-writing
answer a roll call for another
ancient times (e.g. Heian and Nara periods in Japan); remote ages; early history; (nominal) retail price
present age; present day; contemporary; modern era; modern times; contemporary era
price; cost; charge; payment; bill; fee
acting as agent; acting on (someone's) behalf; executing business for
thousands of years; eternity; all generations
well-known; fame
signing by proxy
for generations; from generation to generation; generation after generation; through the ages
the teens (10-19); teenage; the tenth generation
age; era; period; date
nth generation; nth (person to occupy a position, e.g. president)
successive generations; successive emperors
substitute (actor); stand-in; fill-in; understudy; double
price; cost; charge; price (of achieving something); cost; sacrifice
Five Dynasties (of China; 907-979)
writing on someone's behalf
yakuza coat of arms
acting shugo (Kamakura or Muromachi period military governor)
algebra; number of generations (e.g. in imperial succession)
thousands of years; eternity; all generations
playing a gambling game on behalf of a person or organization (esp. mahjong or pachinko); person who gambles on someone's behalf
amanuensis; scribe
substitute runner; pinch runner; substitute
tooling cost; mold price
advocacy; pleading by proxy; speaking for another; attorney
change; alternation; rotation; replacement; substitution; shift
(one's) 20s; twenties
the same generation; coeval
ancient time; age of the gods; mythological age; time before the ascension of Emperor Jimmu
ancient time; age of the gods; mythological age; time before the ascension of Emperor Jimmu
the next era
speaking by proxy; speaking for (someone else); payment by proxy; compensation by proxy; acting for (someone else); carrying out (on someone's behalf)
one's high school days
uncommon; rare; extraordinary; matchless
the present age; these days; (present) head of the family
three generations; three periods; third generation
earnings from a part-time job; part-time job pay
charge (for admission, a meal, etc.); fee; price
pronoun; synonym; classic example; pattern
taking over (e.g. store or family's headship); subrogation; substitution of one person for another (usu. a creditor)
land rent
land rent
sales clerk (in a merchant house, ranking between the head clerk and an apprentice); shopman; shop assistant
accommodation fees; hotel charges; room charges
accommodation fees; hotel charges; room charges
assistant instructor; substitute instructor
chamberlain; castle keeper
parliamentarian; member of a congress
representative
same age; same period
spokesperson; speaker (for someone); mouthpiece; voice (e.g. for the ordinary citizen)
cost of a meal (or meals)
electricity bill; electric bill
cost of repairs
Taishō period (1912-1926); Taisho period
drink money; alcohol expenses; tip; gratuity
charge for medicine
charge for medicine
previous generation; former ages
overtime pay; overtime money; overtime payment
room rent
drink money; drinking money
long era; ages; eternity
venue cost; venue fee
(nominal) retail price
transportation expenses; travel expenses; fare (train, taxi, etc.)
cost of a ticket; price of a ticket
telephone bill; telephone rate
medical fees
surgery costs (fees)
deputy who went to the battlefield in his lord's stead (Muromachi period onward); provisional regent (standing in for an underage lord; Muromachi period onward); official left in charge of a jin'ya in a lord's absence; local magistrate
glorious reign; enlightened era
brigadier general; commodore
one's parents' generation
price of a flower; fee for a geisha's companionship
successive generations
gasoline bill; cost of gasoline
successive generations
gas bill; gasoline bill; petrol bill
Tang period (China; 618-907); Tang era
fee paid for space (e.g. for a stall)
fee paid for space (e.g. for a stall)
the n-th generation head of a family
representative; delegate
newspaper subscription fee
playing a gambling game on behalf of a person or organization (esp. mahjong or pachinko); person who gambles on someone's behalf
cost of a lesson learned (e.g. from failing at something); price of a life lesson
Song dynasty (of China; 960-1279); Sung dynasty
Han period (China; 202 BCE-220 CE); Han era
cost of a car; carfare; honorarium (to cover transportation costs); travel expenses (customarily given by wedding hosts to guests who have travelled from afar)
room rent
Ming period (China; 1368-1644); Ming era
substitute; deputy; proxy; representative; agent
district acting shugo (in the Muromachi period); deputy military governor (of a district); district magistrate (in the Edo period)
grand kagura performance at Ise; type of performance including the lion dance and juggling; Camellia japonica 'Daikagura' (cultivar of Japanese camellia)
subrogation; substitution
ticket price
fee charged at a public bath
cash on delivery; COD
cash on delivery; COD
money for books
loaner vehicle (e.g. from a garage which is repairing one's vehicle)
(one's) 80s; eighties
hospital costs; hospital bill
algebraic expression
lunch money
substitute land
free of charge
to change hands; to be succeeded
magnificent imperial reign
substitute lecturing; substitute lecturer
laundry charges
Yuan dynasty (of China; 1271-1368); Yüan dynasty; Mongol dynasty
honorarium (to cover transportation costs); travel expenses (customarily given by wedding hosts to guests who have travelled from afar)
praying by proxy; applying by proxy
fee paid for the services of a geisha or prostitute
cost for leasing
main telephone number
Cenozoic era
time charge for a geisha
money to see one over the New Year period
periodic fee (esp. for employee travel); commuting expenses
payment (for labour); pay; charge; wages
Collections of the Twenty-One Eras; twenty-one collections of waka compiled by imperial command (early Heian to early Muromachi)
execution by proxy; subrogation (of administrative acts)
money brought to a funeral; incense money; fee for a geisha's time
(mobile broadband) data cost
lady's pin money; cosmetics expense
Internet charge
agency; acting official
assisting town official (Edo period)
assisting town official (Edo period)
Qing dynasty (of China; 1644-1912); Ch'ing dynasty; Manchu dynasty
representing others in a conference
substitute; placeholder
deputy estate steward; deputy jitō
replacement warship
substitute article
decade (of age); -ties (e.g. sixties)
age of information; information age
the present era
substitute priest
substitute
a notice
magazine subscription fee
goodwill; intangible assets (part of the acquisition price of a business paid for the name and reputation of the company rather than tangible assets)
Proterozoic era
(printing, etc.) plate cost
dynastic era
deciding on behalf of someone; deciding for someone in their stead
otoshi fee; table charge; cover charge; fee for a compulsory appetizer at an izakaya, etc.
taxi fare
one who offers prayer in place of another
sign for another
pinch hitter
waiting in place of someone else
Archaeozoic (Archeozoic) Era
pro-verb (e.g. "do")
legal representative; legal guardian
seven generations of celestial deities
relative pronoun
algebraic theory
pronominal verb
godparent
algebraic variety; locus defined by polynomial equations
Phanerozoic
godchild
bill for article
Hadean; Hadean eon
wholesale price
shelf space rent; shelf space fee
National People's Congress (of the People's Republic of China); NPC
Cryptozoic (period)
(mobile broadband) data cost
substitute kanji; jōyō kanji used in place of a non-jōyō kanji
points awarded for scoring combinations
fixed overtime pay; fixed overtime salary
bus fare
hotel bill; cost of a hotel
house of representatives; legislative assembly; chamber of deputies
composing charges; composition charges
draft (of a document)
Examples (26 in total)
My father is in his fifties.
She entered her twenties.
My grandfather is in his nineties.