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

Phono-semantic matching of English media or medium.

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): méitǐ

(Zhuyin): ㄇㄟˊ ㄊㄧˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): mui⁴ tai²
Hakka
(Sixian, PFS): mòi-thí

(Hailu, HRS): moi ti^ˊ
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): mûi-thé

(Teochew, Peng'im): bhuê⁵ ti²
Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁶me-thi

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/
- (Hailu, incl. Zhudong)
  - Hakka Romanization System: moi ti^ˊ
  - Sinological IPA: /moi⁵⁵ tʰi²⁴/
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

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):

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

“媒體”, 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)

hanja form^? of 매체 (“medium”)