评论

pínglùn · HSK 5

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💬 评 = appraise + 论 = discuss; together = comment/review

评 (píng) means to judge or appraise; 论 (lùn) means to discuss or theorize. Combined, 评论 is the act of judging-plus-discussing — a comment, review, or commentary on something.

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.

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