(jiān) - supervise, monitor, watch (bound) in Mandarin
jiānTraditional: 监
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Translation
supervise, monitor, watch (bound)
Word origin
An ideographic character (traditional 監) showing a person bending over a vessel of water to see a reflection; from looking down it came to mean to supervise, monitor or watch over.
- Origin
- ideographic
- Root
- a person looking down into a vessel of water (traditional 監)
Stroke order
监
Examples
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He is in prison.
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Please oversee this matter.
口。
He watches the door.
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The teacher is invigilating the students.
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He was locked up in jail.
监 (jiān) means to supervise or monitor, forming 监狱 (jiānyù, prison) and 监督 (jiāndū, supervise).
Appears in 2 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 监.
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