监

監traditional

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jiàn

(bound form) supervisor; supervisory office (in imperial China)

jiān

to supervise; to inspect; jail; prison

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Definitions adapted from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0, modified). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Frequency ranks from the BCC corpus. Full credits on the Attributions page.