评
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to discuss; to comment; to criticize; to judge; to choose (by public appraisal)
- HSK 3.0
- Level 3
- Old HSK
- Level 4
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 言 +5
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 評
- Common rank
- #994
- Unicode
- U+8BC4
Sound it out + =
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How to remember it
evaluate · Heisig RSH #1161
words + water lily
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 评
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 评头品足 | to make idle remarks about a woman's appearance (idiom) | |
| 美团点评 | Meituan-Dianping, China's largest service-focused e-commerce platform | |
| 评头论足 | lit. to assess the head and discuss the feet (idiom); minute criticism of a woman's appear… | |
| 评论区 | comments section | |
| 信用评级 | credit rating | |
| 评论家 | critic; reviewer | |
| 同行评议 | peer review | |
| 影评人 | film critic | |
| 信用评等 | credit rating | |
| 评价分类 | to assess and classify | |
| 广受好评 | widely praised; well received | |
| 评论员 | commentator | |
| 评分 | to grade; to mark (student's work); grade; score (of student's work) | |
| 专家评论 | expert commentary | |
| 评事 | to discuss and evaluate; to appraise | |
| 风评 | reputation | |
| 评理 | to judge between right and wrong; to reason things out | |
| 同行评审 | peer review | |
| 评语 | comment; evaluation | |
| 评议会 | council |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 平 — compare how they read.