Number:
1443
監 oversee
ONYOMI: KAN
Genghis KHAN used his one rifle to oversee the vassal's filling of the BOWL.
DESCRIPTION: -
JUKUGO:
- 監督 ( かんとく )
-
movie director/ construction foreman / coach.
監 (oversee) + 督 (supervisor) = 監督 (director)
- 監視 する ( かんし する)
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to supervise, or watch over a project. Also means, to guard bad people - guards at a prison, a teacher who watches students at test time to keep them from cheating. (BOOBOO: don't mix this with 警備 (けいび), which is someone who is guarding or protecting good people or things).
監 (oversee) + 視 (peer at) = 監視 (to supervise)
LOOKALIKES:
USED IN:
| Meaning | Hint | Radical | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 緊 | tense | STRING | 糸 |
| 監 | oversee | PLATE | 皿 |
| 堅 | solid, steadfast | EARTH | 土 |
| 賢 | clever | MONEY | 貝 |
| 覧 | view | LOOK | 見 |
I pull the STRING until it's very tense.
You oversee the PLATE (you're a waiter)
The EARTH is very solid.
You gotta be clever to get MONEY.
You view things by LOOKING at them, dumbass.