督

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): phonetic 叔 + semantic 目 (“eye”) – to look over, to oversee (with eyes).

Han character

督 (radical 109 目+8, 13 strokes, cangjie input 卜水月山 (YEBU), four-corner 2760₄, composition ⿱叔目)

1. supervise, oversee, direct

References

• KangXi: page 810, character 31
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 23457
• Dae Jaweon: page 1225, character 26
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2495, character 12
• Unihan data for U+7763

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Cantonese

Hanzi

督 (Yale duk1)

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Japanese

Kanji

督 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: とく (toku)
• Kun: みる (miru), うながす (unagasu), ひきいる (hikiiru)

Compounds

• 督促
• 督励
• 監督 (かんとく, kantoku, “director”)

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Korean

Hanja

督 (hangeul 독, revised dok, McCune-Reischauer tok, Yale tok)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

督 (pinyin dū (du1), Wade-Giles tu¹)

Compounds

• 督办
• 督察
• 督促
• 督导
• 督抚
• 督教
• 督军
• 督理
• 督脉
• 督迫
• 督率, 督帅
• 督战
• 督阵

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Vietnamese

Han character

督 (đốc)