HSK 5 · Media

媒体 méitǐ “media” in Chinese

Traditional 媒體

What 媒体 means

  1. media
  2. the press
  3. media, esp. news media

How to say 媒体

  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale媒méi2nd tone, rising
  • Pitch chart of the third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale体tǐ3rd tone, dipping

媒体 in a sentence

  1. 媒体抹黑了他的名誉。

    Méitǐ mǒhēi le tā de míngyù.

    The media smeared his reputation.

    Sentence #13964093 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 媒体近几个月只讨论一件事：经济危机。

    Méitǐ jìn jǐ ge yuè zhǐ tǎolùn yí jiàn shì: jīngjì wēijī.

    In recent months the media has talked about only one thing: the economic crisis.

    Sentence #5685893 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 媒体 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 媒 (méi) with each of its parts in a different colour
媒méimedium
  • 女woman · nǚMeaning part
  • 某some · mǒuSound part

女 hints at the meaning (woman); 某 (mǒu) hints at the sound. Compare it with méi.

The character 体 (tǐ) with each of its parts in a different colour
体tǐbody
  • 亻person form of 人 · rén
  • 本root · běn

Memory aidA person 亻 and a root 本: the body.

How to write 媒体

媒 12 strokes · 体 7 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

媒体 (méitǐ) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 媒体 (méitǐ). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 媒体

Words with 媒

媒介méijiè · medium

Words with 体

身体shēntǐ · body体育tǐyù · physical training体育馆tǐyùguǎn · gymnasium体会tǐhuì · to know from experience体贴tǐtiē · considerate (of other people’s needs)体现tǐxiàn · to embody体验tǐyàn · to experience for oneself具体jùtǐ · specific集体jítǐ · collective (decision)整体zhěngtǐ · whole

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FAQs

媒体 (méitǐ) means “media” or “the press”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it méitǐ: méi with a 2nd tone, then tǐ with a 3rd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 媒体 is written 媒體. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type meiti with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 媒体 from the suggestions. Typing meiti into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
媒体 is an HSK 5 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.