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HSK
head / director (of an organizational unit) / (police) commissioner / inspector-general / rank of local governor in Tang dynasty administration
HSK 6
to monitor
HSK 6
National Supervision Commission of the PRC, anti-corruption agency established in 2018
to control / to supervise / to inspect
HSK 6
China Insurance Regulatory Commission (CIRC), abbr. for 中國保險監督管理委員會|中国保险监督管理委员会
(PRC law) residential surveillance / to order sb to stay at their home, or a designated location, under surveillance
prison
HSK 7-9
to serve (a sentence) outside prison (law)
to oversee / to take charge of / to supervise / to administer / supervisory / supervision
HSK 7-9
mutual supervision
chancellor (of a university)
to monitor / to keep a close watch over / surveillance
HSK 7-9
China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) (abbr. for 中國證券監督管理委員會|中国证券监督管理委员会)
to act as a guardian
HSK 7-9
China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) (abbr. for 中國證券監督管理委員會|中国证券监督管理委员会)
to monitor
HSK 7-9
security camera / surveillance monitor
to supervise; to oversee (e.g. a construction project) / (of a regulatory body) to oversee; to regulate (e.g. financial institutions) / supervisor
peephole
life sentence
to visit a prisoner (usu. a relative or friend)
to supervise / to control
HSK 7-9
lit. the emperor is not worried, but his eunuchs are (idiom) / fig. the observers are more anxious than the person involved
to imprison / to jail / to take into custody
to monitor secretly / to spy on
Guardian Council of the Constitution of Iran
to proctor (an exam) / to invigilate
intensive care
inspection office / supervisory office
to embezzle
school official responsible for supervising the students (old)
custody (of a child)
court eunuch / palace eunuch
National Supervision Commission (abbr. for 國家監察委員會|国家监察委员会)
supervisor
Guardian Council, body of 12 appointed clerics which governs Iran
shepherd / Tang dynasty official with responsibility for animal husbandry / pastor (cleric in charge of a Christian parish)
chief operating officer (COO)
to monitor; to listen in; to eavesdrop
Qincheng Prison, maximum-security prison located about 30 km north of central Beijing, whose inmates include former high-level officials convicted of corruption
Guozijian, the highest educational administrative body in imperial China, in some dynasties also functioning as the highest institution of academic research and learning (Imperial College, aka Imperial Academy)
supervisor of textiles (official post in Ming dynasty)
to supervise the manufacture of / to supervise the shooting of films / executive producer (film)
superintendent
inspection and control bureau
to monitor / to keep an eye on
AQSIQ / PRC State Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine
Jianli, a county-level city in Jingzhou City 荊州市|荆州市, Hubei
safeguards
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  *监* | 监* | *监
to supervise / to inspect / jail / prison
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  *监* | 监* | *监
(bound form) supervisor; supervisory office (in imperial China)
supervisor / monitor
to scrutinize balloting
China Banking Regulatory Commission (CBRC)
gatekeeper
intensive care unit (ICU)
Ministry of Supervision (MOS)
(Tw) to tail (sb) (abbr. for 跟蹤監視|跟踪监视)
continuous monitoring
guardian
China Banking Regulatory Commission (CBRC), abbr. for 中國銀行業監督管理委員會|中国银行业监督管理委员会
State Electricity Regulatory Commission (PRC)
State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission (SASAC), an entity that oversees state-owned assets at a particular level of government, the most prominent one being the SASAC of the State Council 國務院|国务院
to have custody of
prison / jail
RMON / remote monitoring
off-site monitoring
a jail / to imprison
China Insurance Regulatory Commission (CIRC)
to supervise / to audit / to monitor
prisoner (Cantonese)
to imprison / to take into custody
school official responsible for supervising the students (old)
workplace overseer / foreman
Control Yuan, a watchdog under the constitution of Republic of China, then of Taiwan
matron
member of a board of directors
China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) (abbr. to 證監會|证监会)
Sanbao Eunuch, official title of Zheng He 鄭和|郑和 / also written 三保太監|三保太监
State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council
naval surveillance vessel; maritime patrol boat
supervisor / monitor / watchdog


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