U+76D1 "监" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
监
U+76D1 "监" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that carries the core meaning of "to supervise," "to oversee," or "to inspect," and it is also used in the word "prison" or "jail" when combined with other characters, as in "监狱" (jiānyù). This character is a simplified form of the traditional character "監," which originally depicted a person looking into a container of water, symbolizing the act of reflecting or examining. In modern usage, it frequently appears in contexts related to management, surveillance, and law enforcement, such as "监督" (jiāndū) meaning "to supervise" and "监控" (jiānkòng) meaning "to monitor."
General Properties
| Code Point | U+76D1 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| Block | CJK Unified Ideographs |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 监 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 监 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE7 0x9B 0x91 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x76D1 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000076D1 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u76d1 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 274D3D |
| kCangjie | LIBT |
| kCantonese | gaam1 |
| kDefinition | supervise, control, direct |
| kEACC | 274D3D |
| kFourCornerCode | 2810 |
| kGB0 | 2864 |
| kHanYu | 42559.070 |
| kHanyuPinlu | jiān(115) |
| kIICore | AG |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 42559.070 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0794.041 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-3C60 |
| kTGH | 2013:1883 |
| kKangXi | 0794.041 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 4148 |
| kMandarin | jiān |
| kPhonetic | 544 |
| kRSUnicode | 108.5 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 456.16 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 163.060:jiān 165.140:jiàn |
| kTotalStrokes | 10 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "監" U+76E3 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | G |
| kXHC1983 | 0547.120:jiān 0555.080:jiàn |