Chinese symbol for “matchmaker”
媒人
méi ren
matchmaker
The closest CC-CEDICT match for matchmaker is 媒人 (méi ren), defined as: matchmaker.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “matchmaker”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 红娘 (紅娘) | hóng niáng | matchmaker |
| 大媒 | dà méi | matchmaker |
| 媒 | méi | medium; intermediary |
| 月下老人 | yuè xià lǎo rén | (Chinese folk religion) the god of matchmaking; (idiom) matchmaker |
| 牵线人 (牽線人) | qiān xiàn rén | sb who pulls strings to get things done; wirepuller |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 媒人.
| 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)) |
| 人民 | rén mín | the people |
| 人们 (人們) | rén men | people |
See also: Japanese symbol for “matchmaker”.
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.