Illustration: In a community center kitchen, an older resident learns a dumpling-folding technique from an instructor appearing on a propped-up tablet. The screen clearly shows the instructor's hands making the same distinctive pleat that the resident is attempting at the counter.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

媒ばい体たい

baitai

medium

Example sentences

  1. テレビは情報じょうほうを与あたえるための非常ひじょうに重要じゅうような媒体ばいたいである。

    Television is a very important medium through which to provide information.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 空気くうきは音おとの媒体ばいたいだ。

    The air is a medium for sound.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 特とくに言語げんごは最もっとも流動的りゅうどうてきな媒体ばいたいである。

    Language in particular is the most fluid of mediums.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

Kanji in 媒体

  • 媒mediator; go-betweenOnバイKunなこうど
  • 体body; substanceOnタイ・テイKunからだ・かたち

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