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媒

媒

Translingual

Han character

媒 (radical 38 女+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 女廿一木 (VTMD), four-corner 44494, composition ⿰女某)

References

  • KangXi: page 266, character 37
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6498
  • Dae Jaweon: page 533, character 38
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1063, character 13
  • Unihan data for U+5A92

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 媒

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 媒
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (某) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
某 *mɯʔ
謀 *mɯ
媒 *mɯː
煤 *mɯː
腜 *mɯː
禖 *mɯː

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *mɯː) : semantic 女 ‎(“woman”) + phonetic 某 ‎(OC *mɯʔ).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 媒
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 明 (4)
Final (韻) 灰 (42)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) I
Fanqie 莫杯切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /muʌi/
Pan
Wuyun		 /muoi/
Shao
Rongfen		 /muɒi/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /mwəj/
Li
Rong		 /muᴀi/
Wang
Li		 /muɒi/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /muɑ̆i/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 méi
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 媒
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 méi
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ mwoj ›
Old
Chinese		 /*C.mˤə/
English match-maker, go-between

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 媒
Reading # 1/1
No. 9277
Phonetic
component		 某
Rime
group		 之
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 枚
Old
Chinese		 /*mɯː/

Definitions

媒

  1. go-between; matchmaker
  2. medium
  3. yeast
  4. to introduce

Compounds

  • 三媒六聘
  • 三媒六證／三媒六证
  • 互動媒體／互动媒体
  • 作媒
  • 保媒
  • 傳媒／传媒 (chuánméi)
  • 傳播媒體／传播媒体
  • 冷媒 (lěngméi)
  • 多媒體／多媒体 (duōméitǐ)
  • 多媒體卡／多媒体卡
  • 大媒
  • 大眾媒介／大众媒介
  • 央媒
  • 女媒
  • 媒人 (méirén)
  • 媒人嘴
  • 媒介 (méijiè)
  • 媒介體／媒介体
  • 媒兒／媒儿
  • 媒妁
  • 媒妁之言
  • 媒婆 (méipó)
  • 媒孽
  • 媒怨
  • 媒材
  • 媒染劑／媒染剂
  • 媒氏
  • 媒譖／媒谮
  • 媒質／媒质 (méizhì)
  • 媒錢／媒钱
  • 媒頭／媒头
  • 媒體／媒体 (méitǐ)
  • 媒體造勢／媒体造势
  • 官媒
  • 平面媒體／平面媒体 (píngmiàn méitǐ)
  • 廣告媒體／广告媒体
  • 待媒
  • 憑媒說合／凭媒说合
  • 教育媒體／教育媒体
  • 新聞媒介／新闻媒介
  • 明媒正娶
  • 明媒正配
  • 梯媒
  • 水媒花
  • 溶媒 (róngméi)
  • 獸媒花／兽媒花
  • 男媒女妁
  • 病媒
  • 病媒蚊
  • 瘧媒蚊／疟媒蚊
  • 自媒
  • 良媒
  • 落花媒人
  • 蟲媒花／虫媒花
  • 行媒
  • 觸媒／触媒 (chùméi)
  • 說媒／说媒 (shuōméi)
  • 謝媒錢／谢媒钱
  • 超媒體／超媒体
  • 雉媒
  • 電子媒體／电子媒体
  • 靈媒／灵媒 (língméi)
  • 風媒花／风媒花
  • 鳥媒花／鸟媒花
  • 鴆媒／鸩媒
  • 龍媒／龙媒

Japanese

Kanji

媒

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. mediator

Readings

Korean

Hanja

媒 • ‎(mae) (hangeul 매, revised mae, McCune-Reischauer mae)

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Vietnamese

Han character

媒 (môi, mối, mồi, mụ, mai)

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