监 视

jiānshì

“To monitor” in Chinese is 监视 (jiānshì).

Meaning

to monitor
to keep a close watch over
surveillance

Example

有人在监视。

Someone is watching.

Example sentence from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0).

Characters

jiānHSK 610 strokesto supervise shìHSK 18 strokes(literary, or bound form) to look at

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Not to be confused with: 见识 (jiànshi, to gain first-hand knowledge of sth) · 坚实 (jiānshí, firm and substantial)