Chinese symbol for “intermediary”
媒介
méi jiè
intermediary; vehicle; vector; medium
The closest CC-CEDICT match for intermediary is 媒介 (méi jiè), defined as: intermediary; vehicle; vector; medium; media.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “intermediary”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 中间人 (中間人) | zhōng jiān rén | intermediary; mediator |
| 窗口 | chuāng kǒu | window; opening providing restricted access (e.g. customer service window) |
| 媒 | méi | medium; intermediary |
| 引线 (引線) | yǐn xiàn | fuse (for an explosive device); electrical lead |
| 调停者 (調停者) | tiáo tíng zhě | mediator; intermediary |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 媒介.
| 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) |
| 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)) |
| 介绍 (介紹) | jiè shào | to introduce (sb to sb); to give a presentation |
| 简介 (簡介) | jiǎn jiè | summary; brief introduction |
| 介入 | jiè rù | to intervene; to get involved |
See also: Japanese symbol for “intermediary”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.