监视居住

Traditional form:

監視居住

Pinyin (reading):

jiānshìjūzhù

Definitions:

• (PRC law) residential surveillance
• to order sb to stay at their home, or a designated location, under surveillance

Characters:

• 监 - to supervise, to direct, to control; to inspect; prison, jail
• 视 - to look at, to inspect, to observe, to regard
• 居 - to live, to reside; to dwell; to sit
• 住 - to reside, to live at, to dwell, to lodge; to stop

Traditional characters:

• 監 - to supervise, to direct, to control; to inspect; prison, jail
• 視 - to look at, to inspect, to observe, to regard
• 居 - to live, to reside; to dwell; to sit
• 住 - to reside, to live at, to dwell, to lodge; to stop