監
監 — gam
Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).
- Korean reading
- 볼 감
- Romanization
- gam
- English
- supervise, control, direct
- Mandarin
- jiān
- Japanese on'yomi
- カン
- Japanese kun'yomi
- みる
- Japanese usage
- Jōyō kanji
- School grade
- Secondary (Jōyō)
- Newspaper frequency
- #408 of 2,500
- Strokes
- 14
- Radical
- 皿 (108, 9 residual)
- Unicode
- U+76E3
How 監 was formed
Traditional analysis treats 監 as a ideographic compound involving 臥, 皿.
Korean example words with 監
- 피감被監 Korean gloss: 감사를 받음
- 감리監理 Korean gloss: 감독하고 관리함
- 감사監査 Korean gloss: 감독하고 검사함
- 감호監護 Korean gloss: 감독하고 보호함
- 상감上監 Korean gloss: ‘임금’의 높임말
- 감시監視 Korean gloss: 단속하기 위하여 주의 깊게 살핌
- 국감國監 Korean gloss: ‘국정 감사’를 줄여 이르는 말
- 감금監禁 Korean gloss: 드나들지 못하도록 일정한 곳에 가둠
- 감방監房 Korean gloss: 교도소에서, 죄수를 가두어 두는 방
- 감역監役 Korean gloss: 토목이나 건축 따위의 공사를 감독함
- 병감病監 Korean gloss: 교도소에서 병든 죄수를 따로 두는 감방
- 감영監營 Korean gloss: 조선 시대에, 관찰사가 직무를 보던 관아
Definitions from Woorimalsam, National Institute of Korean Language (CC BY-SA 2.0 KR)
Japanese words with 監
- 監督かんとく supervision; control; superintendence
- 監視かんし monitoring; watching; observation
- 監査かんさ inspection; audit; judgement
- 監査役かんさやく auditor; inspector
- 監禁かんきん confinement; imprisonment; incarceration
- 監察かんさつ inspection; inspector
- 監修かんしゅう (editorial) supervision; general editorship; supervising director
- 総監そうかん inspector general; commissioner
- 監獄かんごく prison
- 監理かんり superintendence; supervision; administration
- 監事かんじ auditor; controller; comptroller
- 収監しゅうかん imprisonment
Characters sharing the phonetic 監
Most Han characters pair a meaning part with a sound part. Characters sharing a sound part are usually read alike.
Other hanja read “감”
Other hanja with radical 皿
Some glosses are machine-generated. Sources and licences are listed together — sources and licences