dū
supervise
Phonosemantic compound. 目 represents the meaning and 叔 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 督
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
to control | ||
Christ | ||
army title (archaic) | ||
to supervise | ||
Christianity |
Statistics
HSK level 6
Appears in 14.0798% of movies
1431st most common character in movies
946th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 13 |
Unicode | U+7763 |
Shuowen | “督，察也。一曰目痛也。从目，叔聲。” |
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