監

See also 监

Translingual

shinjitai	監
simplified	监
traditional	監

Alternative forms

Note the difference in the upper right component between Chinese, where it resembles ケ (half of ⺮, 竹), and Japanese, where it is rather 匕.

Etymology

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 臥 + 血. Note the replacements 人 → ケ/匕 and 血 → 皿.

Han character

監 (radical 108 皿+9, 14 strokes, cangjie input 尸戈月廿 (SIBT), 尸一月廿 (SMBT), four-corner 7810₇)

1. supervise, control, direct

Derived characters

• 覽 (覧) 艦 (舰) 鹽 (塩 盐)

Descendants

• 监

References

• KangXi: page 796, character 2
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 23032
• Dae Jaweon: page 1210, character 18
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2566, character 3
• Unihan data for U+76E3

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Cantonese

Hanzi

監 (simplified 监, Yale gaam1, gaam3)

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Japanese

Kanji

監 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: かん (kan)
• Kun: みる (miru)

Compounds

• 監禁
• 監獄
• 監査
• 監察
• 監視
• 監守
• 監修
• 監督
• 監房

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Korean

Hanja

監 (hangeul 감, revised gam, McCune-Reischauer kam, Yale kam)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

監 (simplified 监, pinyin jiān (jian1), Wade-Giles chien¹)

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Vietnamese

Han character

監 (giam, giám, giớm, giợm, róm, giấm, lổm, ram, rướm, xám)