好评
hǎopíng · HSK 7
favorable comment
👍⭐ 好评 = 好 (good) + 评 (review) = a good review; a favorable comment
好 means good and 评 means to review or comment (as in 评论). Together they form the praise-side of a rating: high marks, a thumbs-up review. The opposite is 差评, a bad review.
好 — woman 女 + child 子
好 is an associative compound showing a woman 女 beside a child 子, depicting a mother with her baby. From this image of maternal affection it came to mean 'good, fine, pleasing.' The reading hǎo means 'good'; read hào it means 'to like.'
评 — speech radical 讠 + flat 平
评 is a semantic-phonetic compound. The left side 讠 (speech) signals it relates to spoken judgment or discussion, while 平 (flat, level) provides the sound and hints at weighing things evenly. Together they convey appraising or commenting fairly.