媒ばい体たい

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Common wordJLPTN1Freq.FrequencyTop 10,000

Meanings

Refers to a means of communication, transmission, or storage, such as mass media, recording media, or a medium for information.

新しん聞ぶんは重じゅう要ような情じょう報ほう媒ばい体たいです。
Newspapers are an important information medium.
このデータは磁じ気き媒ばい体たいに保ほ存ぞんされている。
This data is stored on magnetic media.

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Usage patterns

〈物もの〉を媒ばい体たいとして使つかうto use something as a medium
このアプリは情じょう報ほう伝でん達たつの媒ばい体たいとして使つかわれている。
This app is used as a medium for conveying information.
〈物もの〉という媒ばい体たいを通つうじて〈事こと〉を伝つたえるto convey something through the medium of X
そのニュースはテレビという媒ばい体たいを通つうじて伝つたえられた。
The news was conveyed through the medium of television.
媒ばい体たいに記き録ろくするto record (data) onto a medium
データをUSBメモリという媒ばい体たいに記き録ろくした。
I recorded the data onto a USB drive medium.

Kanji

媒mediator, go-between
体body, substance, object

Related words

メディアN2
メディア is a loanword usually meaning mass or digital media, while 媒体 is a broader term that can also cover physical storage or any means of transmission.
媒ばい介かい
媒体 names the medium itself (e.g. a newspaper or platform), whereas 媒介 describes the act or role of mediating between things.

Don't confuse with

媒ばい介かい
媒体 refers to the physical or technical medium that carries information, while 媒介 refers to the act or agent of mediating between two things.
触しょく媒ばい
媒体 shares the kanji 媒 with 触媒 but means 'medium' or 'media' (e.g. a storage medium or news media), not a chemical catalyst.

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広こう告こく媒ばい体たい
advertising media
映えい像ぞう媒ばい体たい
video recording; video media
活かつ字じ媒ばい体たい
print media
磁じ気き媒ばい体たい
magnetic media
空あき媒ばい体たい
empty medium; blank medium

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Etymology

From 媒 (intermediary) + 体 (body, substance). The exact historical derivation is uncertain, but the compound has been used since the Meiji era to translate Western concepts of 'medium'.