監 — oversee, official, govt office

かん監 oversee

Grade S Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 15 strokes

U+76E3 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #408 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #1562 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

oversee
official
govt office
rule
administer

word

かん kan On'yomi On'yomi (音読み) — the Sino-Japanese reading, derived from Chinese pronunciation. Most commonly used in compound words (jukugo).

監(かん) 督(とく) kantoku director 監(かん) 視(し) kanshi surveillance 監(かん) 査(さ) kansa audit 監(かん) 修(しゅう) kanshuu supervision 監(かん) 禁(きん) kankin confinement 監(かん) 理(り) kanri supervision 監(かん) 獄(ごく) kangoku prison

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

じん臣 retainer #131

𠂉 hairpin

さら皿 dish #108

Used as component in (4)

かん艦 warship かん鑑 specimen あい藍 indigo らん濫 excessive

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Kangxi Radical The Kangxi radicals are a set of 214 character components standardized in the 1716 Kangxi Dictionary. Every kanji is classified under one radical, used for dictionary lookup and character organization.

#108 皿 dish