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媒

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medium; intermediary; matchmaker; go-between; abbr. for 媒體|媒体[mei2 ti3], media, esp. news media

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HSK 3.0
Level 3
Old HSK
Level 5
Strokes
12
Radical
女 +9
Structure
Left–right 左右
Traditional
媒
Common rank
#1,329
Unicode
U+5A92

Formation & memory

Break the character into parts you already know.

How 媒 is formed

Phono-semantic compound (形声字)

女 meaning “woman” + 某 sound ( mǒu )

Components 女 某

How to remember it

matchmaker · Heisig RSH #2732

女 woman + 某 such and such

Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

Words with 媒

The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.

WordPinyinMeaning
中国传媒大学 Zhōng guó Chuán méi Dà xué Communication University of China (CUC), the highest institute of radio, film and televisi…
维基媒体基金会 Wéi jī méi tǐ Jī jīn huì Wikimedia Foundation
上海文广新闻传媒集团 Shàng hǎi Wén guǎng Xīn wén Chuán méi Jí tuán Shanghai Media Group
平面媒体 píng miàn méi tǐ print media
自媒体 zì méi tǐ self-media (news or other content published on independently-operated social media account…
国际媒体 guó jì méi tǐ the international media
多媒体 duō méi tǐ multimedia
新媒体 xīn méi tǐ new media (digital media, as contrasted with traditional media)
流媒体 liú méi tǐ streaming media
社交媒体 shè jiāo méi tǐ social media
新闻媒体 xīn wén méi tǐ news media
媒体自由 méi tǐ zì yóu freedom of the media
虫媒病毒 chóng méi bìng dú arbovirus
社群媒体 shè qún méi tǐ (Tw) social media
超媒体 chāo méi tǐ hypermedia
传输媒体 chuán shū méi tǐ transmission medium
生物媒介 shēng wù méi jiè biological vector
大媒 dà méi matchmaker
媒人 méi ren matchmaker
媒体访问控制 méi tǐ fǎng wèn kòng zhì Media Access Control; MAC

Sound family

Characters sharing the sound component 某 — compare how they read.

CharacterPinyinMeaning
某 sound part mǒu some, someone; a certain thing or person
谋 móu to plan, to scheme; strategem
煤 méi carbon, charcoal, coal, coke