媒 — Chinese character
媒
méi
go-between, matchmaker; medium
- Pinyin
- méi
- Radical
- 38 ⼥ (Woman)
- Strokes
- 12
- Components
- 女 某
- Formation
- pictophonetic — woman; meaning component 女; sound component 某
- Japanese
- 媒 as a kanji
Common words with 媒
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 媒体 (媒體) | méi tǐ | media, esp. news media |
| 传媒 (傳媒) | chuán méi | the media; mass media; (epidemiology) medium or route of transmission (of a disease) |
| 媒介 | méi jiè | intermediary; vehicle |
| 多媒体 (多媒體) | duō méi tǐ | multimedia |
| 新闻媒体 (新聞媒體) | xīn wén méi tǐ | news media |
| 外媒 | wài méi | foreign news media (abbr. for 外国媒体 (wài guó méi tǐ)) |
| 流媒体 (流媒體) | liú méi tǐ | streaming media |
| 媒人 | méi ren | matchmaker |
| 灵媒 (靈媒) | líng méi | medium (person believed to communicate with spirits) |
| 官媒 | guān méi | official media; state media (abbr. for 官方媒体 (guān fāng méi tǐ)) |
| 触媒 (觸媒) | chù méi | (Tw) catalyst |
| 冷媒 | lěng méi | refrigerant |
English words written with 媒
媒 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Mencius 1 · Zhuangzi 3
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.