generation / instead of

(personleft) + (rituals)
★★★★★
5 strokes
JERKDUPE

Onyomi

DAI

Mnemonic

Back in the '70s, they had a ritual where the older generation of people DIED , and the new generation took its place. I think it was called punk.

Kunyomi

( ) か*わる something is exchanged or one person succeeds another. A robot replaces a human, (who is made into Soylent Green)
★★★★☆
か*わり ( ) instead of. As in, "Pay with your booty instead of money."
★★★★☆

Jukugo

代表(だいひょう)

representative ★★☆☆☆
(generation / instead of) + (express) = 代表 (representative)

political delegate or group represtntative

世代(せだい)

generation ☆☆☆☆☆
(society) + (generation / instead of) = 世代 (generation)

a generation (as in, generation gap, the me generation, all that stuff)

Lookalikes

Meaning Hint Radical
generation / instead of dot is on the outside
stick to GLUE - dot is on the inside!

"Stick to" is the only kanji where the dot is on the inside, so you could think of it as a dot of GLUE making the left and right right radicals stick to each other.

Used In

Synonyms

exchange
替える    換える    代える   
out of date, old-fashioned
時代遅れの    古くさい    古めかしい    旧式の    廃れる   
slowly, gradually
段々    少しずつ    じょじょ 次代に   
to switch
代わる    替わる    換わる