取而代之 Save Sign in to save words On the HSK 7-9 vocabulary list, at CEFR level C2. qǔérdàizhī ㄑㄩˇ ㄦˊ ㄉㄞˋ ㄓ 男 女 to replace to supersede to take its (or her etc) place idiom Character by character 取(qǔ)take 而(ér)and 代(dài)be a substitute for 之(zhī)(possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的 de) A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0 国际中文教育中文水平等级标准, 中华人民共和国教育部, MIT