监视

jiān shì · HSK 7

to keep a close watch over

👁️📹 监 oversee + 视 look = oversee-and-look, to keep surveillance over

监 carries the sense of supervising or overseeing; 视 means to look or watch. Together they form watching-from-above: monitoring and surveillance. Pairs with the related sense of guarding a target closely.

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