to substitute / to act on behalf of others / to replace / generation / dynasty / age / period / (historical) era / (geological) eon

= + : Rosa Luxemburg (亻) wants to practice her archery skills in the airplane's bathroom (ai4). On the other side Don Quixote (d) is standing, but they don't have an apple, so they substitute the apple with a token (代, 代币). Don Quixote is trembling heavily as Rosa lifts her bow (弋) and prepares to shoot down the token from Don's head.

代 character breakdown

"person" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 9)

= 丿 + : Mnemonic symbol: Rosa Luxemburg. She's quite radical, and her name starts with "r", just like "ren2". Also, 亻appears at the left-hand side of characters, and Rosa is a leftist as well.

Robinson Crusoe (r) and Rosa Luxemburg (亻) are having their favorite snacks in the encampment's kitchen: Rosa is eating a banana (丿) and Robinson is eating a dinosaur bone (丨).
to shoot

Maud Younger (y) is practicing her shooting (弋) skills with a bow in the bathroom of the space station (Ø4). 弋 just looks like a bow with an arrow, which is going to be shot to the left hand side. There's even a feather on the arrow at the right hand end.

Characters with 代 as component

to lend on interest / to borrow / a loan / leniency / to make excuses / to pardon / to forgive

= + : Don Quixote (d) asks the crab (贝) for a loan (贷) in the airplane's bathroom (ai4) so that he can continue his adventures, but the crab can only offer him a few tokens (代) for the washing machine.
pouch / bag / sack / pocket

= + : Don Quixote (d) put his kilt (衣) in the washing mashine in the airplane's bathroom (ai4), and now he needs a token (代) to open it. Unfortunately as he is looking through the washing machine's window he remembers that he left the token in his kilt's pocket (袋).
umber-black dye for painting the eyebrow
Mt Tai in Shandong / same as 泰山
variant of 玳[dai4]
tortoise shell / turtle
used in place names / Japanese -nuta / Korean -dae
to prop up

Words with 代

for many generations / generation / era / age
passed on from generation to generation (idiom); to hand down
Five Dynasties, period of history between the fall of the Tang dynasty (907) and the founding of the Song dynasty (960), when five would-be dynasties were established in quick succession in North China
secondary / twice in the year (of generations of insects, harvests etc)
generation of 1957 / refers to Mao's anti-rightist purge of 1957
Five Dynasties (907-960) and Ten Kingdoms (902-979), period of political turmoil in ancient China
History of the Five Dynasties, eighteenth of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史[Er4 shi2 si4 Shi3], compiled under Xue Juzheng 薛居正[Xue1 Ju1 zheng4] in 974 during Northern Song 北宋[Bei3 Song4], 150 scrolls
Mesozoic (geological era 250-65m years ago, covering Triassic 三疊紀|三叠纪, Jurassic 侏羅紀|侏罗纪 and Cretaceous 白堊紀|白垩纪)

Sentences with 代

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