评委
píng wěi · HSK 7
adjudicator
🧑⚖️ 评 (evaluate) + 委 (committee member) = a judge on the panel
评 means to appraise or review; 委 marks a committee member (as in 委员). Together they name the person who appraises contestants: an adjudicator on a judging panel.
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.