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Mythic Mandarin

监狱 (jiān yù): meaning and stroke order

监狱 (jiān yù) means prison.

监狱

Simplified
监狱
Traditional
監獄
Pinyin
jiān yù

Stroke order of 监狱

监

  • jiān to supervise; to inspect
  • jiàn (bound form) supervisor; supervisory office (in imperial China)
  • 10 strokes
  • Traditional form: 監

Stroke by stroke

狱

  • yù prison
  • 9 strokes
  • Traditional form: 獄

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 监狱

  1. jiān yù Traditional 監獄
    • prison

Radicals of the characters

监
Radical 皿 (Kangxi radical 108) · 10 strokes
狱
Radical 犬 (Kangxi radical 94) · 9 strokes

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

监狱 in our stories

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  • 北宋的时候，大文学家苏轼因为写诗讽刺朝廷的新法，被人告发，关进了监狱。

    Běi Sòng de shíhou dà wénxuéjiā Sū Shì yīnwèi xiě shī fěngcì cháotíng de xīnfǎ bèi rén gàofā guān jìn le jiānyù

    In the Northern Song the great writer Su Shi was denounced for writing poems that mocked the court's new laws, and was thrown into prison.

    From the story Neither wind and rain nor sunshine HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 监狱

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).