媒体

媒体

See also: 媒體

Chinese

For pronunciation and definitions of 媒体 – see 媒體 (“medium; media; news media; etc.”). (This term, 媒体, is the simplified form of 媒體.)

Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
媒	体
ばい Grade: S	たい Grade: 2
on’yomi

Pronunciation

• On’yomi
  • (Tokyo) ばいたい [bàítáí] (Heiban – [0])[1]
  • IPA^(key): [ba̠ita̠i]

Noun

媒体 (shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai kanji 媒體, hiragana ばいたい, rōmaji baitai)

1. medium (the material or empty space through which signals, waves or forces pass)
2. medium (a format for communicating or presenting information)
3. vector (carrier of a disease-causing agent)

References

1. 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN