監 — Chinese character
監
jiān
to supervise, to direct, to control; to inspect; prison, jail
- Pinyin
- jiān
- Radical
- 108 ⽫ (Dish)
- Strokes
- 14
- Components
- 臣 皿
- Formation
- pictophonetic — minister; meaning component 臣; sound component 皿
- Simplified
- 监
- Japanese
- 監 as a kanji
監 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Analects 1 · Mencius 2 · Zhuangzi 8 · Great Learning 1
- Analects 3.14
- Mencius 2B.9
- Zhuangzi The Circling Sky
- Zhuangzi Knowledge travels North
- Zhuangzi Contingencies
- Zhuangzi Robber Chê
- The Great Learning Passage 13
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.