HSK6

supervise

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components

Sound component
shū, shu uncle
Meaning component
eye

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangʔl'uːwɢ

說文解字

《說文》:“督,察也。一曰目痛也。从目,叔聲。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica