传媒
chuán méi · HSK 6
media
📺📰 传 = transmit + 媒 = medium → media that transmits
传 means transmit/pass on (as in 传播 spread); 媒 means medium or intermediary (also in 媒介 medium). Together they name the channels — TV, press, radio — that carry messages between sender and audience.
传 — person radical 亻 + 专 (zhuān)
Originally a phono-semantic compound: 亻 (person) gives the meaning 'to pass on' between people, while 専/专 supplied the sound. Early uses referred to relay stations and messengers carrying word from place to place, which broadened to today's senses of transmitting, spreading, and handing down (as in tradition or biography).