Chinese Character Wiki
媒

méi

matchmaker, medium

Phonosemantic compound. 女 represents the meaning and 某 represents the sound.

Components
女 meaning component

女  Meaning component

nǚ, rǔ

  

woman

某 sound component

某  Sound component

mǒu

  

certain thing or person

Evolution

媒 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
媒 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
媒 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

媒  

méi

go-between, matchmaker; medium; intermediary; matchmaker; go-between; abbr. for 媒體|媒体[méi​tǐ], media, esp. news media

Most common words with 媒
Freq.
Word
Meaning

媒体

media, esp. news media

媒

medium

传媒

media

多媒体

multimedia

媒介

vehicle

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*C.mˤə

mwoj

méi

match-maker, go-between


Statistics

HSK level 3

Appears in 14.7365% of movies

1576th most common character in movies

1506th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Unicode

U+5A92

Shuowen

“媒，謀也，謀合二姓。从女，某聲。”


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