Keyword
substitute
Info
FrequencyTop 100-200
Type
Kyōiku (3rd grade) 
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KankenLevel 8
Heisig1080
Readings
だい
(67%)
(21%)
しろ
(3%)
たい
(2%)
(2%)
(1%)
かわ
(1%)
Composed of
thin person
shoot with a bow
Mnemonic

How do you become someone's substitute? You shoot that person with a bow. Then you hide the body and pretend you're them. Flawless!

Used in kanji (5 in total)
sack
lend
blue-black
old name for a Chinese mountain
Used in vocabulary (919 in total)
period; epoch; the times; those days; oldness; ancientness
instead of; in place of; as a substitute for; in exchange for; in return for; to make up for
charge; cost; generation; age; era; a representative of; on behalf of
Examples (160 in total)
Instead of going myself, I sent a letter.
Sorry, but could you answer the phone for me?
If you dislike my way of doing things that much, why don't you just do it yourself instead.