The kanji 媒: meaning, readings and stroke order

媒

Meaning: go-between, medium
On reading: バイ bai
Kun reading: —
Strokes: 12
Radical: 女 woman, female
Level: Level 9 · senior high school

Stroke order

Meaning in other languages

Vietnamese: trung gian, mai mối (môi)
Japanese: あいだにたってとりもつ。
Korean: 중매, 매개 (매)
Chinese: 媒介、媒人

Readings, words and example sentences

バイ bai · on reading · less common

媒ばい介かい
carrying (from one to another)
虫が花粉を 媒ばい介かいします。
Insects carry pollen from flower to flower.

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Readings, radicals: Kanjium, KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); strokes: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); Korean, simplified forms: Unicode Unihan. Meanings, sentences: Dino Kids (CC0). See Licences.