媒

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

• KangXi: 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

Historical forms of the character 媒
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *mɯː) : semantic 女 (“woman”) + phonetic 某 (OC *mɯʔ).

媒

1. go-between; matchmaker
2. medium; intermediary
3. to introduce; to recommend
4. (Cantonese) plant (person placed amongst an audience) with the role of promoting sales by making fake purchases
5. (obsolete, literary) yeast

   • 今舉事一不當，而全軀保妻子之臣，隨而媒糱其短 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     今举事一不当，而全躯保妻子之臣，随而媒糱其短 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: Sima Qian, Letter to Ren An (1st century BCE, translated by Burton Watson)

     jīn jǔ shì yī bù dàng, ér quán qū bǎo qī zǐ zhī chén, suí ér méi niè qí duǎn [Pinyin]

     Now he has committed one act that was not right, and the officials who think only of saving themselves and protecting their wives and children vie with each other in magnifying his shortcomings. (lit. "to ferment upon his shortcomings as if by yeast")

• → Vietnamese: mai (“matchmaker”)

媒

1. Only used in 媒媒.

• “媒”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. mediator

• 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)

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

Wikisource 媒 (eumhun 중매 매 (jungmae mae))

1. Hanja form^? of 매 (“medium”).

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

媒: Hán Nôm readings: môi, mối, mai

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