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時代

じだい

period, age

Mnemonic

One stretch of time handed straight on to the next, and this one belongs to the robots. The same じ that counts the hours, and a die だい of an age. Yours was the one before: じだい.

Built from

time, hour
日 sun + 寺 temple
substitute, generation
亻 a person on the left with a marker set beside them, one standing in the place of another.

Words sharing these kanji

time, hour time, occasion hour, o'clock occasionally, at times time, season, period at that time, at the present time

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