| 1 | 时代 | 時代 | shí dài | Shi2 dai4 | age; era; epoch; period (in one's life); Classifiers: 个 ; age; era; epoch; period (in one's life); Classifiers: 个 | | |
| 2 | 年代 | 年代 | nián dài | nian2 dai4 | a decade of a century (e.g. the Sixties); age; era; period; Classifiers: 个 | | |
| 3 | 代表 | 代表 | dài biǎo | dai4 biao3 | representative; delegate; Classifiers: 位 ; to represent; to stand for; on behalf of; in the name of | | |
| 4 | 现代 | 現代 | xiàn dài | Xian4 dai4 | modern times; modern age; modern era; Hyundai, South Korean company | | |
| 5 | 现代化 | 現代化 | xiàn dài huà | xian4 dai4 hua4 | modernization; Classifiers: 个 | | |
| 6 | 古代 | 古代 | gǔ dài | gu3 dai4 | ancient times; olden times | | |
| 7 | 代替 | 代替 | dài tì | dai4 ti4 | to replace; to take the place of | | |
| 8 | 代 | 代 | dài | dai4 | to substitute; to act on behalf of others; to replace; generation; dynasty; age; period; (historical) era; (geological) eon | | |
| 9 | 一代 | 一代 | yī dài | yi1 dai4 | generation | | |
| 10 | 当代 | 當代 | dāng dài | dang1 dai4 | the present age; the contemporary era | | |
| 11 | 唐代 | 唐代 | táng dài | Tang2 dai4 | Tang dynasty (618-907) | | |
| 12 | 代谢 | 代謝 | dài xiè | dai4 xie4 | replacement; substitution; metabolism (biol.) | | |
| 13 | 取代 | 取代 | qǔ dài | qu3 dai4 | to replace; to supersede; to supplant; (chemistry) substitution | | |
| 14 | 代价 | 代價 | dài jià | dai4 jia4 | to drive a vehicle for its owner (often as a paid service for sb who has consumed alcohol) (abbr. for 代理驾驶 ); substitute driver (abbr. for 代驾司机 ); price; cost; consideration (in share dealing) | | |
| 15 | 后代 | 後代 | hòu dài | hou4 dai4 | descendant; progeny; posterity; later ages; later generations | | |
| 16 | 交代 | 交代 | jiāo dài | jiao1 dai4 | to hand over; to explain; to make clear; to brief (sb); to account for; to justify oneself; to confess; (coll.) to finish | | |
| 17 | 清代 | 清代 | qīng dài | Qing1 dai4 | the Ch'ing or Qing dynasty (1644-1911) | | |
| 18 | 代表团 | 代表團 | dài biǎo tuán | dai4 biao3 tuan2 | delegation; Classifiers: 个 | | |
| 19 | 明代 | 明代 | míng dài | Ming2 dai4 | the Ming dynasty (1368-1644) | | |
| 20 | 四个现代化 | 四個現代化 | sì ge xiàn dài huà | si4 ge5 xian4 dai4 hua4 | Deng Xiaoping's four modernizations practiced from the 1980s (possibly planned together with Zhou Enlai), namely: modernization of industry, agriculture, national defense and science and technology; abbr. to 四化 | | |
| 21 | 宋代 | 宋代 | sòng dài | Song4 dai4 | Song dynasty (960-1279) | | |
| 22 | 代表性 | 代表性 | dài biǎo xìng | dai4 biao3 xing4 | representativeness; representative; typical | | |
| 23 | 历代 | 歷代 | lì dài | li4 dai4 | successive generations; successive dynasties; past dynasties | | |
| 24 | 新陈代谢 | 新陳代謝 | xīn chén dài xiè | xin1 chen2 dai4 xie4 | metabolism (biology); the new replaces the old (idiom) | | |
| 25 | 汉代 | 漢代 | hàn dài | Han4 dai4 | the Han dynasty (206 BC-220 AD) | | |