méi
matchmaker, medium
Phonosemantic compound. 女 represents the meaning and 某 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 媒
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
media, esp. news media | ||
medium | ||
media | ||
multimedia | ||
vehicle |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*C.mˤə | mwoj | méi | match-maker, go-between |
Statistics
HSK level 3
Appears in 14.7365% of movies
1576th most common character in movies
1506th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 12 |
Unicode | U+5A92 |
Shuowen | “媒，謀也，謀合二姓。从女，某聲。” |
Sources
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