监
jiānjiàn HSK6

watch carefully

监 監 jiān frequency
to supervise nounverb
to supervise, inspect, or keep a close watch on; to be in charge of
prison noun
a place where criminals are kept; jail; a cell
to imprison
to take into custody or keep someone behind bars
监 監 jiàn
(bound form) government office
(bound form) a name for certain government offices or supervisory departments in imperial China
official
(bound form) an official in charge of supervision or affairs in ancient China
to reflect
(literary) to look in a mirror; to use as a reference or warning from the past; same as 鉴 jiàn
surname
a Chinese surname
eunuch
(bound form) a palace eunuch, as in 太监 tài​jiàn

Cross-References

Same as

Frequency
Character
Written text
838th most common 212.3 per million
Movie subtitles
608th most common 233.7 per million appears in 52% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
3.19 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
81.2 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 6
Traditional
監
Strokes
10
Unicode
U+76D1

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)