评审
píngshěn · HSK 7
judge
⚖️ 评审 = 评 appraise + 审 examine: the panel that appraises and examines
评 means to appraise or comment on, and 审 means to examine or scrutinize. Together they name the act of judging by careful examination — what a review panel, referee, or umpire does. Sound: ping-shen, like the pings of a judge calling each point.
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.