媒

媒	U+5A92, 媒 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5A92

← 媑
[U+5A91]

CJK Unified Ideographs

媓 →
[U+5A93]

Translingual

Han character

媒 (radical 38 女+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 女廿一木 (VTMD), four-corner 4449₄, composition ⿰女某)

References

KangXi: page 266, character 37

Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6498

Dae Jaweon: page 533, character 38

Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1063, character 13

Unihan data for U+5A92

Chinese

simp. and trad.		媒

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 媒
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Characters in the same phonetic series (某) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
某	*mɯʔ
謀	*mɯ
媒	*mɯː
煤	*mɯː
腜	*mɯː
禖	*mɯː

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *mɯː) : semantic 女 (“woman”) + phonetic 某 (OC *mɯʔ).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): méi (mei²)

(Zhuyin): ㄇㄟˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): mui⁴
Hakka (Sixian, PFS): mòi
Min Dong (BUC): muòi
Min Nan (POJ): mûi / bôe / môe / m̂ / hm̂ / bûn
Wu (Wiktionary): me (T3)

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: méi
  - Zhuyin: ㄇㄟˊ
  - Wade–Giles: mei²
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: mei
  - IPA ^(key): /meɪ̯³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: mui⁴
  - Yale: mùih
  - Cantonese Pinyin: mui⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: mui⁴
  - IPA ^(key): /muːi̯²¹/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: mòi
  - Hakka Romanization System: moiˇ
  - Hagfa Pinyim: moi²
  - IPA: /mo̯i¹¹/
Min Dong
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: muòi
  - IPA ^(key): /muoi⁵³/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou, mainstream Taiwanese, Xiamen)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: mûi
  - Tâi-lô: muî
  - Phofsit Daibuun: muii
  - IPA (Quanzhou, Taipei, Xiamen): /muĩ²⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /muĩ²³/
- (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bôe
  - Tâi-lô: buê
  - Phofsit Daibuun: boee
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /bue¹³/
- (Hokkien: Kaohsiung)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: môe
  - Tâi-lô: muê
  - Phofsit Daibuun: moee
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /muẽ²³/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: m̂
  - Tâi-lô: m̂
  - Phofsit Daibuun: mm
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /m̩²⁴/
- (Hokkien: Taipei, Xiamen)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hm̂
  - Tâi-lô: hm̂
  - Phofsit Daibuun: hmm
  - IPA (Taipei, Xiamen): /hm̩²⁴/
- (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bûn
  - Tâi-lô: bûn
  - Phofsit Daibuun: buun
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /bun¹³/

Note:

môe/m̂/hm̂/bûn - vernacular;
mûi/bôe - literary.

Wu
- (Shanghainese)
  - Wiktionary: me (T3)
  - IPA ^(key): /me̞²³/

Middle Chinese: /muʌi/▼

Rime
Character	媒
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	明 (4)
Final (韻)	灰 (42)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	莫杯切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/muʌi/
Pan Wuyun	/muoi/
Shao Rongfen	/muɒi/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/mwəj/
Li Rong	/muᴀi/
Wang Li	/muɒi/
Bernard Karlgren	/muɑ̆i/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	méi

Old Chinese▼
(Baxter–Sagart): /*C.mˤə/

(Zhengzhang): /*mɯː/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	媒
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	méi
Middle Chinese	‹ mwoj ›
Old Chinese	/*C.mˤə/
English	match-maker, go-between
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. [t] as coda may in fact be -t or -p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	媒
Reading #	1/1
No.	9277
Phonetic component	某
Rime group	之
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	枚
Old Chinese	/*mɯː/

Definitions

媒

Compounds

三媒六聘
三媒六證／三媒六证
互動媒體／互动媒体
作媒
保媒
傳媒／传媒 (chuánméi)
傳播媒體／传播媒体
冷媒 (lěngméi)
多媒體／多媒体 (duōméitǐ)
多媒體卡／多媒体卡
大媒
大眾媒介／大众媒介
央媒
女媒
媒人 (méirén)
媒人嘴
媒介 (méijiè)
媒介體／媒介体
媒兒／媒儿
媒妁 (méishuò)
媒妁之言
媒婆 (méipó)

媒孽
媒怨
媒材
媒染劑／媒染剂
媒氏
媒譖／媒谮
媒質／媒质 (méizhì)
媒錢／媒钱
媒頭／媒头
媒體／媒体 (méitǐ)
媒體造勢／媒体造势
官媒 (guānméi)
平面媒體／平面媒体 (píngmiàn méitǐ)
廣告媒體／广告媒体
待媒
憑媒說合／凭媒说合
教育媒體／教育媒体
新聞媒介／新闻媒介
明媒正娶
明媒正配
梯媒
水媒花

溶媒 (róngméi)
獸媒花／兽媒花
男媒女妁
病媒
病媒蚊
瘧媒蚊／疟媒蚊
自媒
良媒
落花媒人
蟲媒花／虫媒花
行媒
觸媒／触媒 (chùméi)
說媒／说媒 (shuōméi)
謝媒錢／谢媒钱
超媒體／超媒体 (chāoméitǐ)
雉媒
電子媒體／电子媒体
靈媒／灵媒 (língméi)
風媒花／风媒花
鳥媒花／鸟媒花
鴆媒／鸩媒
龍媒／龙媒

Japanese

Kanji

媒

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

mediator

Readings

Goon: まい (mai)
Kan’on: ばい (bai, Jōyō)
On: ぼう (bō)
Kun: なこうど (nakōdo, 媒); なかだち (nakadachi, 媒)

Korean

Hanja

媒 • (mae) (hangeul 매, revised mae, McCune–Reischauer mae)

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Vietnamese

Han character

媒 (môi, mối, mồi, mụ, mai)

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