媒

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媒 U+5A92, 媒
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5A92
← 媑
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 媓 →

Translingual

Han character

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

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 266, character 37
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6498
  • Dae Jaweon: page 533, character 38
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1063, character 13
  • Unihan data for U+5A92

Chinese

trad. 媒
simp. # 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 / 形声, OC *mɯː) : semantic 女 (“woman”) + phonetic 某 (OC *mɯʔ).

Pronunciation 1

Note:
  • hm̂/m̂/bûn/môe/moâi/hûn - vernacular;
  • mûi/bôe - literary.
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
Baxter mwoj
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/muʌi/
Pan
Wuyun 		/muoi/
Shao
Rongfen 		/muɒi/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/mwəj/
Li
Rong 		/muᴀi/
Wang
Li 		/muɒi/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/muɑ̆i/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		méi
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		mui4
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 媒
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		méi
Middle
Chinese 		‹ mwoj ›
Old
Chinese 		/*C.mˁə/
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. * 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

  1. go-between; matchmaker
  2. medium; intermediary
  3. Short for 媒體／媒体 (méitǐ); media; press
    紙媒／纸媒  ―  zhǐméi  ―  print media
  4. to introduce; to recommend
  5. (Cantonese) plant (person placed amongst an audience) with the role of promoting sales by making fake purchases
  6. (obsolete, literary) yeast

Compounds

Descendants

  • → Vietnamese: mai (“matchmaker”)

Pronunciation 2

Definitions

媒

  1. Only used in 媒媒.

References

Japanese

Kanji

媒

(Jōyō kanji)

  1. mediator

Readings

  • Go-on: 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

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 媒 (MC mwoj). Recorded as Middle Korean ᄆᆡ (moy) (Yale: moy) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Hanja

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

媒 (eumhun 중매 매 (jungmae mae))

  1. hanja form? of 매 (“medium”)

Compounds

Compounds

References

  • 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

Vietnamese

Han character

媒: Hán Nôm readings: môi, mối, mai

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