都察院

Dūcháyuàn

proper noun

Meanings

1 Censorate, the Ming and Qing office that watched over officials and impeached wrongdoers

Characters

chief; metropolitan

Examples

HSK 7-9

都察院负责监察官员。

Dūcháyuàn fùzé jiānchá guānyuán.

The Censorate was responsible for supervising officials.

HSK 7-9

明朝的大案要由刑部、大理寺和都察院一起审理。

Míngcháo de dà'àn yào yóu Xíngbù, Dàlǐsì hé Dūcháyuàn yìqǐ shěnlǐ.

In the Ming, major cases were tried jointly by the Ministry of Justice, the Court of Judicial Review and the Censorate.

Tips

history

The Ming founder set it up in 1382 in place of the old 御史台. Its censors, 御史, inspected the provinces and impeached corrupt officials, and with 刑部 and 大理寺 it formed the 三法司, which judged the gravest cases together.

mistakes

都 is read dū here, as in 首都 'capital', not dōu 'all'.

Stroke Order

都 dōu

察 chá

院 yuàn