監 Oversee

Radical Combination

• 臣

  Servant
• Gun
• 一

  Ground
• 皿

  Plate

Meaning

Primary

Oversee

Mnemonic

To the servant you say: "gun, ground, plate." It is your job to oversee everything they do.

Hints

You point to the gun. You point to the ground (that's where the gun goes). You point to the plate (you want it). You have to oversee everything the servant does.

Readings

On’yomi

かん

Kun’yomi

None

Nanori

None

Mnemonic

Why must you oversee everything? Because you are Genghis Khan (かん), and Genghis Khan oversees everything.

Hints

If anyone had to oversee a lot, it was Genghis Khan, who had one of the largest kingdoms in all of history.