中介

• 拼音: zhōng jiè
• 汉字拆解: 中 = a line through a rectangle, centre/middle; 介 = 人 (person) flanked by vertical lines, to be between/to mediate

含义

Intermediary; agent; middleman; broker. A person or company that acts as a go-between in a transaction or negotiation.

Commonly used in real estate (房屋中介, property agent), employment (人才中介, recruitment agency), and business. 中介费 means agency fee or brokerage commission. Can be used as a noun (the intermediary) or attributively (中介机构, intermediary organisation). Often carries a slightly neutral-to-negative connotation in everyday speech.

例句

1. 他们通过房屋中介找到了一套满意的出租公寓。
2. 这家中介帮助很多外国人在北京找到了合适的工作。
3. 直接和房东签合同，可以省去中介费。

用法指南

语境: commerce, real-estate, employment

语气: neutral

正确说法

• 找工作时可以通过中介，也可以直接联系用人单位。(When looking for work, you can go through an agency or contact employers directly.)
• 这家中介的服务费比市场平均水平高出不少。(This agency's service fees are considerably higher than the market average.)

错误说法

• 把'中介'用于描述外交或正式政府谈判中的调解方 (In formal diplomatic contexts, 中间人 or 调解方 is more appropriate — 中介 is mainly used in commercial and everyday brokerage contexts)

起源与历史

From 中 (middle/centre) and 介 (to be between, a pictograph of a person standing between two vertical lines), literally 'the one who stands in the middle'.

文化背景

世代: All ages

社会背景: Universal