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Mythic Mandarin

媒 (méi): meaning and stroke order

媒 (méi) means medium, intermediary, matchmaker, go-between, abbr. for 媒体, media, esp. news media.

媒

Simplified
媒
Traditional
媒 (same form)
Pinyin
méi

Stroke order of 媒

媒

  • méi medium; intermediary
  • 12 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 媒

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

Radical and structure

媒
Radical 女 (Kangxi radical 38) · 12 strokes · 女 on the left, 某 on the right

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

Words with 媒

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).