监 · jiān
supervise, control, direct
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
supervise, control, direct
- Mandarin
- jiān
- Cantonese
- gaam1
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Form & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+76D1
- Radical
- 皿 · 108
- Strokes
- 10 · Unihan
- Residual
- 5
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
10 strokesModern stroke order; regional conventions can differ. Stroke medians: Make Me a Hanzi via HanziLookupJS, drawn as an even pen line.
Graphical structure
How to read these symbols
⿰ left–right · ⿱ above–below · ⿻ overlap. Dotted boxes indicate positions, not missing characters. Each symbol describes the components that follow it; nested symbols describe a component in more detail. Source codes identify alternative analyses, not a writing sequence or an etymology.
BabelStone IDS · 2025-06-27. Region tags are preserved; 〾 marks approximation and {n} identifies an unencoded source component. These describe graphical structure, not historical derivation.
Words & connections
Words using 监
Character connections
History & distinctions
Related forms
監
Unihan traditional/simplified variant properties. Conversion may depend on context.
Sources & reference
Evidence & next depth
Retained Unihan properties
- kMandarin
- jiān
- kCantonese
- gaam1
- kDefinition
- supervise, control, direct
- kTotalStrokes
- 10
- kRSUnicode
- 108.5
- kTraditionalVariant
- U+76E3
- kTGH
- 2013:1883
Readings across dictionaries
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- jiān 0547.120 · jiàn 0555.080
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- jiān 163.060 · jiàn 165.140
- Reading counts · XDHYPLCD
- jiān(115)