媒體

See also: 媒体

Chinese

		medium; intermediary; matchmaker medium; intermediary; matchmaker; go-between	body; form; style body; form; style; system
trad. (媒體)		媒	體
simp. (媒体)		媒	体

Etymology

Calque of English media or medium.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): méitǐ

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄟˊ ㄊㄧˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): mui⁴ tai²
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): mòi-thí
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): mûi-thé

  (Teochew, Peng'im): bhuê⁵ ti²

• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁶me-thi

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: méitǐ
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄟˊ ㄊㄧˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: méitǐ
    • Wade–Giles: mei²-tʻi³
    • Yale: méi-tǐ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: meitii
    • Palladius: мэйти (mɛjti)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /meɪ̯³⁵ tʰi²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: mui⁴ tai²
    • Yale: mùih tái
    • Cantonese Pinyin: mui⁴ tai²
    • Guangdong Romanization: mui⁴ tei²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /muːi̯²¹ tʰɐi̯³⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: mòi-thí
    • Hakka Romanization System: moi^ˇ ti^ˋ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: moi² ti³
    • Sinological IPA: /moi̯¹¹ tʰi³¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: mûi-thé
    • Tâi-lô: muî-thé
    • Phofsit Daibuun: mui'tea
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /muĩ²³⁻³³ tʰe⁴¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /muĩ²⁴⁻¹¹ tʰe⁵³/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: bhuê⁵ ti²
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: buê thí
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /bue⁵⁵⁻¹¹ tʰi⁵²/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ⁶me-thi
    • MiniDict: me^去 thi
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³me-thi
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /me²² tʰi⁴⁴/

Noun

媒體

1. medium; media

   這一代的計算機改變了我們創建媒體的方法。 [MSC, trad.]
   这一代的计算机改变了我们创建媒体的方法。 [MSC, simp.]

   Zhè yīdài de jìsuànjī gǎibiàn le wǒmen chuàngjiàn méitǐ de fāngfǎ. [Pinyin]

   This generation of computers changed the way we create media.

   維基媒體基金會／维基媒体基金会  ―  Wéijī Méitǐ Jījīnhuì  ―  Wikimedia Foundation

   1. (specifically) news media
   2. (specifically) mass media

Synonyms

• (media): (chiefly in place names) 梅地亞／梅地亚 (méidìyà)
• (news media): 新聞媒體／新闻媒体 (xīnwén méitǐ)
• (mass media):

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• 傳播媒介 / 传播媒介 (chuánbō méijiè)
• 大眾傳播媒介 / 大众传播媒介 (dàzhòng chuánbō méijiè)
• 大眾媒體 / 大众媒体 (dàzhòng méitǐ)
• 宣傳工具 / 宣传工具 (xuānchuán gōngjù)
• 新聞界 / 新闻界 (xīnwénjiè)

Derived terms

• 中媒 (zhōngméi)
• 多媒體 / 多媒体 (duōméitǐ)
• 大眾媒體 / 大众媒体 (dàzhòng méitǐ)
• 平面媒體 / 平面媒体 (píngmiàn méitǐ)
• 新聞媒體 / 新闻媒体 (xīnwén méitǐ)
• 流媒體 / 流媒体 (liúméitǐ)
• 社交媒體 / 社交媒体 (shèjiāo méitǐ)
• 社會媒體 / 社会媒体 (shèhuì méitǐ)
• 自媒體 / 自媒体 (zìméitǐ)
• 超媒體 / 超媒体 (chāoméitǐ)

References

• “Entry #50099”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2025.

Korean

Hanja in this term
媒	體

Noun

媒體 • (maeche) (hangeul 매체)

1. hanja form^? of 매체 (“medium”)