代名詞

Taken apart

1. 代

   だい

   replacement

2. +

3. 名詞

   めいし

   noun

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Written with 代名詞

In a sentence

• 「クレオパトラ」は美人(びじん)の代名詞(だいめいし)になっている。

  The name Cleopatra has become a byword for a beautiful woman.

  Tatoeba #74106, translation #329614

• 関係(かんけい)代名詞(だいめいし)は「接続詞(せつぞくし)+代名詞(だいめいし)」のはたらきをしています。

  Relative pronouns perform as 'conjunction + pronoun'.

  Tatoeba #74858, translation #328861

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What Wiktionary says

Quoted line by line from Wiktionary's Etymology section for this reading, taken from one dated dump so it can't change underneath us. Nothing below is paraphrased.

• “From 代 (dai, “replacement”) + 名詞 (meishi, “noun”), as it stands in for a noun.”

Source: Wiktionary: 代名詞 (dump of 2026-09-02), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Reading, meaning and part of speech from JMdict, and kanji readings from KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG).

What the labels mean

漢語 Sino-Japanese

Words built from Chinese-derived morphemes — borrowed from Chinese or coined in Japan out of Chinese parts — read with on'yomi.

Compound

Two or more words or stems joined into one.