Chinese symbol for “commissioner”
总监
zǒng jiān
Traditional: 總監
head; director (of an organizational unit); (police) commissioner; inspector-general
The closest CC-CEDICT match for commissioner is 总监 (zǒng jiān), defined as: head; director (of an organizational unit); (police) commissioner; inspector-general; rank of local governor in Tang dynasty administration.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “commissioner”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 总监.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 总统 (總統) | zǒng tǒng | president (of a country) |
| 总是 (總是) | zǒng shì | always |
| 总理 (總理) | zǒng lǐ | premier; prime minister |
| 总结 (總結) | zǒng jié | to sum up; to conclude |
| 总部 (總部) | zǒng bù | headquarters |
| 总之 (總之) | zǒng zhī | in a word; in short |
| 监督 (監督) | jiān dū | to supervise; to oversee; to inspect |
| 监狱 (監獄) | jiān yù | prison |
See also: Japanese symbol for “commissioner”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.